The girl left standing is crowned and celebrated as the Rose Duchess. Still, the crowd joins hands, chanting and singing the rhyme in unison. And Parker knows the truth behind the fatalism of the old game is a brutal one-a symbolic ritual around of the Black Plague. It’s time for the school’s monthly a mass game of Ring Around the Rosie. But one day during lunch, the loudspeaker crackles and a voice beckons them all to the courtyard. Everything about the community is welcoming, inclusive. Even the boys are easy to talk to.and boys have never been easy to talk to for her. As soon as Parker gets there, it puts her at ease too…. The town of Coronation is gated community, something that will finally put her mom at ease. Parker doesn’t want to leave her home - the house she’s lived in her whole life - but her dad finally, finally got a job and that means they can move somewhere safe, without the fear of break-ins. Who will be the last to fall? In this terrifying spin on the old rhyme, a family moves to a seemingly perfect town only to discover that it is anything but normal.
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