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and thinking "Yes, this is it: girls vanish into the woods, never to be seen again, and it messes everyone up. That’s my next book.” He had initially intended to not include flashbacks, as he used this as a plot device in the last book, but that "the past just kept coming back in these chapters, and
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for the wealthy, and were never seen again. Their fellow camper, Emma, was the last to see them alive. Their disappearance stuck with Emma throughout her life and now, as an artist, she includes pieces of that past in all of her artwork. At one of Emma's showings, she meets the owner of Camp
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