Mavi has a second chance in life teaching at a remote boarding school recently reopened 60 years after it was closed. She’s not the only one running from her past, from the government that arrested her mother. The school is also running from the rumors around it’s original closure. About the sickness that swept it’s halls. As the weather turns cold, the house begins to morph and change, practically falling down upon the heads of its occupants, and the new students begin to complain of weird things happening at night. No one would question it if the staff wasn’t given a weird set of rules when they first arrived - no one is to leave their rooms at night. So who is visiting the girls? And who are the others Mavi is warned about? And why are there only nine girls when there’s meant to be ten? Compelled to help the girls and to figure out about her missing student, Mavi breaks the rules which tumbles her into the truth behind the school’s reopening.
Anna thought her new job in the Hamptons was a chance at a fresh start. She could get away from it all before starting college in the fall, but her nanny job soon comes with its own haunting details. Like the fact that she resembles a local girl, Zoe, that went missing New Year’s Eve. Details about Zoe surface in Anna’s mind. Details that a stranger shouldn’t know, making those around Anna worried that she might have played a part in Zoe’s disappearance. Especially, when Anna starts to believe that she came out to the Hamptons that same New Year’s Eve.
Jules is given a second chance. A chance to hit the reset button on her life after it’s fallen to pieces. There’s no one to pull her out of the dark hole she’s in since both of her parents are dead and her sister is still missing. All the ad says is that they need an apartment sitter. What she doesn’t expect is for the apartment to be in the building from her favorite book growing up with sweeping views of Central Park. And she makes $12,000 if she stays the whole three months. She just has to follow all the rules. While there, Jules becomes friends with a fellow apartment sitter, Ingrid, who tells her that the sitter before her left unexpectedly. When Ingrid does the same, disappearing in the middle of the night, Jules goes on a hunt to find her. She discovers more than she wants as the building’s dark secrets come to life.
Life may be busy, but every Christmas break a circle of old college friends come together to celebrate the new year. This year, the newest member of the group has planned a trip to the Scottish Highlands at a remote lodge run by just two staff members. Everything starts out fine - champagne around the fireplace, a few drugs - but each others dirty little secrets start to reveal themselves as the snow begins to fall. Soon there’s no way out and no way to get help when one of them goes missing.
Ten long years and, finally, Oliver can walk as a free man. Detective Colbourne just has one last favor. Since he’s going into the private sector, could Olvier tell him what really happened that night on the dock? But it doesn’t come down to one single moment. There are seven characters in this play and Oliver takes Colbourne to the start where their lives changed forever. When the life of the stage bled into reality.
It was supposed to be an experience to broaden her horizons. She was supposed to be going with her boyfriend. But right out of the gate, the trip has turned into Kim’s worst nightmare as she watches another girl sit on Connor’s lap. That’s why when Nicki, a girl on Kim’s flight, befriend’s Kim, Kim turns into an open book, spilling every last sorted detail of what happened between her and Connor. Nicki jokes that the two of them could take care of each other’s little problem - the police would never guess it was either of them. When Connor ends up dead, Kim fears Nicki has taken her own suggestion seriously.
Amanda and Rosalie have nothing in common - except for dating the same guy, Carter Shaw. Golden boy, extraordinaire, Carter is set to inherit his father’s company and since the start of High School, Amanda and Carter have been pushed as the end goal, the power couple. But Carter can’t stay faithful. Players can be played however and Rosalie does just that by using Carter as a front, trying to conceal her true feelings from her fundamentalist church and family. Amanda and Rosalie’s futures become threatened when they both receive text messages from Private. Private promises to not just destroy their futures but also their lives if they don’t do as instructed.
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Sam Porter might just be looking at his nemesis. The serial killer was said to have jumped in front of a bus that very morning. But why did he commit suicide after alluding Porter’s team for so long? Porter does know that they’re short on time. The man was carrying one of his signature white boxes meaning that he took another victim. Down to the wire, Porter and his team rush to find the missing girl while also piecing together the killer’s allusive past from the journal found in the dead man’s pocket. Can Porter finally put to rest the man that’s been haunting his life for five years, or will there be more questions left unanswered?