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Tales From Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex, Justina Ireland

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Tales From Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex

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Justina Ireland

The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father, a man she's never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby, she doesn't have much of a choice. At least, she thinks, she won't have to spend much time with him, something that becomes clear when he dumps Tasha with her grandmother and disappears to be with his new girlfriend. The Shady Pines trailer park seems like a miserable place to spend a summer, even before an elderly neighbor suddenly passes away. But then Tasha meets a girl named Ellie who says she knows what really killed old Mr. Harold: a terrifying creature that stalks the trailer park at night, sucking the life from its victims. Tasha doesn't believe it, but when she discovers a book of hoodoo legends in her grandmother's trailer, and more people around Shady Pines start to appear unwell, she begins to fear the stories are true, and that danger is much closer than she thinks

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