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I Joined a Fake Death Game for My Son's Surgery, and the First Rule Killed a Man

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Everyone in America thinks the deaths on Last One Home are stunts. Jo Petrillo signed up for her nine-year-old's heart surgery, watched the first rule kill a man four minutes in, and realized the sealed house was the shuttered casino where she once deleted a tape.

Tropes & themes: survival · thriller · single parent · female lead · public-scandal · mystery · near future · suspenseful · found family · slow burn

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Bell (free)
  2. Chapter 2: The Square Under the Dome (free)
  3. Chapter 3: Four and Four (free)
  4. Chapter 4: My Old Villa (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: Stair B (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: The Deuce (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: The Ring (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: The Pit (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: One Call (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: The Linen Closet (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: 2:17 (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: Where Were You (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: Voicemail (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: The Jury (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: Silence (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: The Napkin (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: Band-Aid (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: The Lifeguard Chair (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: Half (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: Camera 31 (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: The Showroom (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: Written Out (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: Testimony (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: Last One Home (locked)

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