Cold Lights

by Luna Elizabeth

Emilie Akabane is a quiet, lonely, and bullied sixteen year old girl who very suddenly finds a friend in the troublemaker Aileen O’Byrne. They share a common interest in all things horror, and unsolved mysteries that might involve the supernatural. This leads them to explore the supposedly haunted woods that surround their town in hopes of finding a ghost, but instead they find their missing classmate, who has dying words to share with Emilie: Aileen did it. Emilie repeats the accusation, but there’s no evidence to support it, and Emilie is informed of another disturbing detail when she’s told that it would have been impossible for her classmate to speak to her, because she’d already been dead for days.

Sixteen years later, the death of her father brings Emilie back to her old hometown, where things fall apart instantly as her boyfriend goes missing and she begins having strange dreams about the woods. To make things worse, she meets her old friend Aileen, who has held a grudge against Emilie for accusing her of murder sixteen years ago. But as things get worse, Emilie and Aileen decide to work together to figure out what really happened in those woods back then, realizing they found something much more than a ghost.

489 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 7, 2024

Reviews

[Martina Weiß · Rating 5 out of 5]

CW: Suicidal Thoughts, Death, Body Horror, Bullying, Toxic Friendship, Grief, Death of Parent, Suicide Attempt


5 / 5 Stars


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