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    After being abducted off the beach, Tim and Lucy have to survive whatever revenge Everett has planned for them—while their friends do everything they can to find them. (I so suck at summaries).
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    Two.

    That’s what his tired brain notes first: two gunshots in rapid succession.

    And then: handgun, not close.

    It’s automatic, and he can’t help it: two gunshots, handgun, not close.

    And then: silence, a pause, like the world is holding its breath—an unsettling stillness that magnifies every other sound: the hissing pipes, dripping water, and his heartbeat, a fast staccato, thud-thud-thud.

    Tim sucks in a breath—but it refuses to make it all the way into his lungs. Thud-thud-thud, his heart straining against his aching ribs. He wants to tell himself not to jump to conclusions, and that this doesn’t necessarily mean anything:

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