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Just as certain is death, peril lurks unto the one that lives.Five and fifty miles north from the town of Aspen, along a calm stream, three mortals descend in hopes to reach the rumored Mihiro Island, a body of land encased with notorious myths of immediate loss of contact with the outside world and never again coming home. But surely they're just fables meant to scare away tourists, right? Two wrong turns later, and an eerie encounter, they arrive at an uncharted island. Its inhabitants are a quiet people, exchanging glances and whispers, as though they are intruders. Secrets, these mortals would soon find, are the very framework that keep its settlers together. And right in plain sight is the most sinister secret of them all.The one with the hat knows no mercy; the one with the soft laugh knows just what to say; and the one with the silver eyes knows more than you think...-Sophie Edwins - a twenty-one-year-old going nowhere in life. After graduating from high school, she opts to continue living in her mother's basement, caught up in a world of makeup and stuffed animals.But as fate would have it, this plan is challenged after a sporadic encounter with her two high school buddies. And after going to a local diner, they mention the luxurious island Mihiro. They plan to travel there by kayak next week, a six hour journey. Under the pressure, she agrees to accompany them with the promise to return in a week's time.This is meant to make her mother proud. She has been saying she'd make something of herself, after all. Get out there.This is about to be her gravest mistake yet.โฆ