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When ghosts call us home, Katya de Becerra

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When ghosts call us home

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Katya de Becerra

"There are some things Sophia Galich will never forget: the itch of constant unease. Faces peering from the shadows. A flash of red cloth. Dripping, matted hair. The sight of <i>her</i>. These ghostly visions lurk at the edge of her memory -- remnants from Cashore House, Sophia's former home, where she starred in her sister Layla's amateur horror movie, <i>Vermillion</i>. In just five years, the film has become a cult classic, catapulting Layla, Sophia, and Vermillion, the film's namesake spirit, into horror movie history -- while inviting fan speculation that <i>Vermillion</i>'s most terrifying scenes weren't crafted from special effects at all but instead captured real traces of something more sinister. Attempting to move on, Sophia does her best to dismiss this possibility and its eerie connection to her own memories. But when Layla suddenly goes missing, Sophia is yanked back into the world of Vermillion. She'll stop at nothing to find her sister, even as Layla's trail returns her to the chilling embrace of Cashore House. There, in the landscape of her nightmares, Sophia's past bleeds into her present. As memories resurface, every step toward Layla and the truth of what happened years ago pulls Sophia closer to the darkness at the heart of Cashore -- and closer to whoever, or whatever, is lurking there to welcome her home." --Book jacket

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