Glory Ibrahim

the house at number 17

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A quiet neighborhood where everyone seems to know everyone.Main character: Amara, 19, observant, intelligent, and curious. She has a habit of noticing little details other people ignore.One evening, Amara discovers an old photograph hidden inside a secondhand book. The photograph shows five people standing outside a house marked Number 17.There is only one problem.One of the people in the photograph is Amara's mother.And the photograph was supposedly taken ten years before Amara was born.When Amara asks her mother about it, her mother goes silent and says only:“Forget you ever saw that photograph.”Naturally, Amara can't.Then, the next morning, someone leaves a note outside her bedroom door:“If you want the truth, don't trust the people living at Number 17.”And that's where the mystery begins

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