Josh Miller
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Senora Heights is the kind of town that feels like it was built to stay frozen in time. Nothing much changes here—people grow up, stay put, and convince themselves that routine is the same thing as safety.
At Senora Heights High, Josh Miller is exactly what that kind of place produces at its best. A junior with an easy smile, sharp mind, and a reputation that makes teachers relax when they see him in the hallway. He’s popular without trying, liked without effort, and dating Jenna Banks—the girl everyone started noticing after she came back from summer break looking completely different from the shy, invisible version they used to ignore.
Josh fits perfectly beside her.
His best friend Andrew Davis doesn’t fit anything neatly. He’s charismatic in a way that makes people laugh a little too late and think a little too long afterward. Still, he’s part of the same core group—always has been.
So is Amy Baysinger. Quiet, observant, and frighteningly intelligent, she’s Jenna’s closest friend and the kind of person most people underestimate without realizing they’ve already been read.
Together, they look like a normal group of high school friends. Popular, smart, harmless. The kind of kids teachers trust and parents point to as proof that everything is fine.
But Senora Heights has started producing absences it can’t explain.
Students disappear, and the explanations never quite settle right. The town calls it coincidence. Bad timing. Teen drama that got out of hand. Anything that keeps the picture clean.
Josh knows better than to rely on clean pictures.
Because beneath the routines and hall passes and Friday-night games, something has already shifted in the way he sees people—and the way certain things stop feeling unthinkable after they’ve already happened once.
And in a town like Senora Heights, the scariest thing isn’t what people notice.
It’s what they don’t.
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