Buried Alive by My Childhood Friends

Twenty years ago, I locked my daughter in a cabinet and walked away, haunted by guilt ever since. Now, with my son's high-society wedding on the line, the past claws its way back—my daughter's voice echoing from the grave, demanding to be found. If I can’t face the horror I buried, my family’s future—and my soul—may be lost forever.

Haunted by a friend's mysterious death, the protagonist digs through school bureaucracy and hidden motives, desperate to uncover what really happened. With every question, suspicion grows—will the truth ever come to light, or will secrets remain buried forever?

Five graves. Four memories. One haunting secret. Gerald Foster, a beloved small-town teacher with a spotless reputation, wakes up each morning knowing he’s a murderer—and that one of his victims is a complete mystery. As police circle his home and the town whispers of ghosts and missing children, Gerald’s failing memory twists reality into terror. Each body in his backyard is a chapter of regret, but it’s the fifth grave—a young woman, a red hair tie, a vanished colleague—that threatens to destroy him. When a ghostly hand and a cryptic letter dredge up the name he’s tried to forget, Gerald must face a chilling question: is he a victim of his own broken mind, or the monster Silver Hollow fears? Will the truth buried beneath his feet set him free—or damn him forever?

Death was only the beginning—now I’m stuck in the afterlife’s endless line, desperate for a second chance. Forced into a ghost marriage and buried alive, my spirit lingers, tethered to the world by the wish for justice. When a wild bouquet leads rookie detective Quinn Harper to my lost grave, he becomes bound to my fate by a single broken bone. As Quinn investigates the tangled secrets of Maple Heights and my family’s hidden betrayals, every revelation draws him deeper into a web of lies, love, and vengeance. Can the truth set my soul free—or will the living and the dead both pay the price for what happened thirty years ago?

Morgan’s life is turned upside down when a mysterious hospital encounter brings her face-to-face with Lucas, the younger brother of her best friend—and the man behind her most forbidden memory. As old secrets and electric chemistry resurface, she must confront a past that refuses to stay buried. One stolen kiss could change everything, but what happens when the truth comes out?

After being murdered by the boy she trusted most, Lillian is reborn with a single mission: expose Caleb's betrayal and protect her reckless sister, Aubrey, from heartbreak and death. But as old wounds resurface and secrets unravel, loyalty, love, and revenge collide in their small American town—where no one is safe, and nothing is as it seems.

After a decade of scraping by and losing touch, one man is forced to confront the painful memories and fractured friendships of his college days when a surprise reunion text drags him back into a web of guilt, jealousy, and secrets. As old wounds resurface, he must face the truth about loyalty, failure, and the friend they all left behind. If he can’t make peace with the past, he risks losing himself—and the last of his brotherhood—forever.

Trapped in a condemned school, 49 classmates are forced into a deadly game: confess who drove Lillian Carter to her death, or die in a hail of poison and betrayal. Every choice splits old friendships and exposes buried guilt, as their class president-turned-tormentor unleashes twisted revenge. Only the truth can save them—but some secrets are worth killing for.

Betrayed by my childhood friend and silenced by trauma, I watched him hand my song—and my secret love—to the campus queen for her own glory. When I fought to reclaim what was mine, they called me jealous and unworthy, all because I can’t speak. But with the help of the mysterious senior who knows my pain, I’ll expose their lies and prove that even the voiceless can make the world listen.

My parents tried to save us by marrying me off to one of the boys I grew up with—but they humiliated me, rejecting me at the dinner table like I was nothing. When I was kidnapped by the same kids who once called me family, only Marcus—the one who hurt me most—came to my rescue, drawing me into a cruel game of fake love and brutal betrayal. I thought he wanted to heal me, but it was all a bet—my heart was just another prize for the boys who broke me.

Three classmates are dead, and all eyes in Maple Heights are on Dylan—the bullied outcast with an artificial eye and a bruised body. The town wants revenge, the cops want a confession, but Dylan’s only crime may be surviving what no one else could. As secrets unravel and evidence twists, Dylan realizes: sometimes, the only way to be seen is to stand at the center of a tragedy.

Derek Foster built a secret bed to hide beneath the woman he’s obsessed with, craving the intimacy she’ll never willingly give. But when her fiancé enters the picture, Derek’s obsession spirals into violence—and a gruesome, claustrophobic nightmare. Now, trapped with a rotting corpse and his sanity slipping, Derek realizes too late that love and madness are only a heartbeat apart.