When Roosevelt High discovers Echoes — an anonymous app where students can post raw, unfiltered stories — it spreads like wildfire. Secrets, confessions, fantasies. Everyone writes. Everyone reads. Everyone shares.

But then Kayla's story ends in tragedy exactly as it was written. And the whispers start: maybe Echoes isn't just an app. Maybe the words are alive.

For Maya Carter, the stories hit closer than anyone. She never wrote a single entry... but her name appears anyway. Her story is uploaded line by line without her consent, and it's counting down to her death by Sunday night.

At first, no one believes it. Then the town does what towns do: it chooses sides. Some treat Maya as a liar who deserves what's coming. Others see her as a vessel for something divine. And as Echoes spreads beyond the school walls into the streets, worship and violence spiral into war.

Every attempt Maya makes to fight back only tightens the noose. Because the more people believe in her story, the more real it becomes. And every whispered word pulls her further from herself — until she can't tell if she's saving Josh, the brother she loves, or anchoring him to the same curse that's consuming her.

Caught between faith and fear, worship and annihilation, Maya must confront the ultimate question: can she reclaim her voice, or has the Author already written her final line?

Stories That Kill is a relentless YA horror-thriller about cursed words, identity, and survival in a world where every story has teeth. Fans of Tagged and Taken and The Last Hashtag will devour this chilling tale of belief, betrayal, and the cost of being written.