*NEW FROM MELISSA ALBERT - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HAZEL WOOD* House of Hollow meets A Good Girl''s Guide to Murder, THE BAD ONES is a page-turning supernatural thriller about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history - and one girl searching for the truth. ‘A gripping story of friendship and the supernatural . . . Albert’s talent for YA fiction is magical and undeniable. I was sucked right into The Bad Ones from the start, and on the edge of my seat until the end.’ Independent A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SECRETS . . . Goddess, Goddess, count to five. In the morning, who''s alive? In a single winter''s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town . . . Nora''s best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. Determined to find her, Nora discovers a string of coded messages Becca has left. These clues point to another missing girl thirty years prior and a sinister urban legend: a goddess figure, who played an eerie role in Nora and Becca''s own childhood games . . . ...