Lock Every Door: A Novel

Jules wakes up screaming after another nightmare about her family and realizes she spent the whole night on the couch with the gun. She checks her messages, but Chloe still hasn’t responded. She scrolls through Erica’s old texts, discovering a conversation between her and Ingrid about another of 12A’s former residents, Marjorie Milton. Jules Googles Marjorie and discovers she isn’t dead like Leslie said.

Jules confronts Marjorie, whose address she found in the White Pages. Marjorie doesn’t want to answer Jules’s questions about the Bartholomew. Jules notices Marjorie’s ouroboros brooch as she’s leaving.

At the library, Jules researches symbology and Satanism. She becomes convinced that the Bartholomew’s residents are a part of a cult that sacrifices young people to conjure Satan.