Twisted Books

Alex Anderson is nothing if not ordinary. He goes to school, plays baseball, hangs out with his friends, and loves his parents. His world is thrown into chaos when his aging great-grandmother starts referring to him as David. What's most peculiar is how insistent she is that this is his name. At first, Alex dismisses it as another saddening example of her growing dementia. Then, while rummaging through the attic, he comes across a photo album he's never seen before. Inside, he finds photos of himself and his parents on a trip. What's strange is that he has no memory of it. Then he discovers something even stranger. The photographs were taken three years before he was born.

Twins Madison and Mason Page have everything two kids could ever want, but they don't seem to appreciate any of it. One day, they dive into their luxurious swimming pool and surface in a very different place. They emerge into another town, long since abandoned. Trapped in this new world, they venture forth, finding evidence that the town's former residents must have suffered some sort of horrible fate before disappearing. Then it hits them. They have somehow been transported to the ghost town of Pripyat, which has stood empty since the local power station exploded many years earlier, a nuclear plant known as Chernobyl.

One morning before classes start, Emily Turner sees something in her school's hallway that brings her to a dead stop--Locker 24 is open. That locker has been shut for over two decades, and no one is allowed to talk about it or ask about it...and certainly not touch it. But Emily's heard the rumors. She knows she should report it immediately. As a straight-A student and yearbook editor, Emily always does The Right Thing. But this time she just can't. Instead, she finds herself unable to resist looking in the forbidden locker--and begins a journey that will change her life forever.