In this terrifyingly fun” (New York Times) horror comedy two friends must solve the mystery of
their long-missing former friend’s supernatural reappearance—perfect for fans of Stranger
Things. Growing up Cori Maz and Sam were inseparable best friends sharing their love for
Halloween arcade games and one another. Now it’s 1992 Sam has been missing for five years
and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be when Cori is sure Sam is dead and
Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days all Maz
wants to do is party buy CDs at Sam Goody and run away from his past. Meanwhile Cori is a
homecoming queen hiding her abiding love of horror movies and her queer self under the
bubblegum veneer of a high school queen bee. But when Sam returns—still twelve years old while
his best friends are now seventeen—Maz and Cori are thrown back together to solve the mystery
of what really happened to Sam the night he went missing. Beneath the surface of that mystery
lurk secrets the friends never told one another then and now. And Sam’s is the darkest of all
. . . Award-winning author of If You Could Be Mine and Here to Stay Sara Farizan delivers
edge-of-your-seat terror as well as her trademark referential humor witty narration and
insightful characters.
