Everlee Payne was the real daughter who never fit the picture. At sixteen she was stolen from a park, sold to a mountain cult and, when returned, punished again—humiliated, blamed, sent back to die. Three years later her body is found. While her family toasts a façade of happiness, her ghost slips back into the house and watches the people who betrayed her smile on screen. But the dead remember. Everlee wakes with a single, burning clarity: she will not let them sleep. She will pull at every lie, expose every bruise, and make the people who groomed her pain learn what it is to lose everything. This is a story of slow, insistent revenge: the cold reveal of hidden photos, the detective who refuses to let it go, the broken lover who traded promises for comfort, the fake sister who eats the inheritance of a ghost. Truths leak to feeds, confessions come in half-sobbed nightmares, and public humiliation becomes a weapon. As Everlee crafts ruin from reflection, she must choose: let go and cross the sea, or stay and watch them rot? Who do you punish when everyone you loved helped bury you? And what would you do if you could make them remember every sin?
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