They Were Just Kids Under the Banyan Tree.
Before the scars. Before the cold highway rides, the broken mirrors, and the blood-soaked knuckles. Before Zane became a nightmare whispered in the dark, he was just an eighteen-year-old boy leaping through classroom windows to make Homer and Emma laugh.
It took exactly one morning to destroy that world forever.
A shortcut through a quiet alley. A senior cop with a badge and a gun. A murder witnessed in the shadows, and a blood-flecked Seiko watch forced into a boy's hand as a silent, suffocating threat: Snitch, and you're the one who goes down.
Trapped between a corrupt system and a killer who wears a uniform, Zane, Emma, and Homer make a desperate pact under the school's ancient Banyan tree. They won't run. They won't go to the police. They will dig up the truth themselves.
But some secrets are buried in graves too deep to disturb.
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