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I read the first part of the Prologue of this book on www.bookishfirst.com and was hooked. Many years ago, I read the author's Florida historical romance novel series. Years later, I found that she was writing paranormal romances. This book is totally different, a thriller romance. The Prologue introduces the main characters, 6 high school students. Davey has Down's Syndrome and his cousin Sarah is overly protective of him. The rest of the group, are her boyfriend, football player Tyler and their 3 friends, Hannah, Sean and Suzie. They talk Davey into dialing in to a radio station to win VIP tickets to a Halloween fun park, and he did. They were all having fun until Davey refused to enter one of the haunted houses, Cemetery Mansion, because his deceased marine father had taught him to recognize bad people and he saw something evil there. Sarah stayed behind with him, while the others went in. But he was right about the Mansion and at the last minute he found a toy weapon in one of the sales booths, went inside with Sarah and managed to save their friends- but a number of other teens were massacred. After this trauma, the teens all went their separate ways and except for Davey and Sarah, lost touch with each other, until the murder of one of them, brings it all back and they must reunite to keep alive. I'm not going to give anything away, but the story did not go where I though it would. The characters are well developed and the plot has lots of twists. I didn't read the previous book, but this worked for me as a stand alone, though I now plan to read A Dangerous Game, which came before.