The farmhouse was silent. Everyone turned around, looking for any sign of their friends, Miles, Asher, and Caden.

“What happened? Where are they?” Edith asked breathlessly.

Judith looked in the hallway, “I don’t see any bodies…anywhere…at all.”

Lewis suggested, “Maybe the light scared them away as well.”

“I wouldn’t say ‘scared,’” James muttered. “But I do agree, between the sunlight and Edith’s whirlwind of stakes, our friends seem to ...