Seventeen-year-old Krayley Spencer has just moved to the quiet town of Oakfield Bottoms, Georgia, with her father, the new caretaker of a historic mansion's cemetery. With summer in full swing, and no friends in this new place, she offers to help her dad.

However, not long into the job, she notices something strange after trying to clean around a broken headstone. A parchment with a note saying, "I found you," instructs her to deliver it to a person she's never heard of. She dismisses it as an odd coincidence, until she finds the same message in several other locations. Then she's marked with a strange tattoo on her arm—one containing the same words as the messages.

Sky, a boy who has similar tattoos on his arms, offers to help her. Suddenly ushered into a dark underworld she doesn't understand, Krayley has no choice but to listen as Sky explains she's a Deliverer—a person marked to carry the messages of the Damned. She has to deliver these messages to the living victims, those left alive by these evil beings while still in the human world. Problem is, if she does the task, bad things happen to the victims.

There's a reason these beings are in purgatory. The Damned fill her ever-waking moment, their voices loud in her head, urging her to carry out their deeds as new tattoos appear daily. If she doesn't do as they say, she dies. Soon, the choice might not be left up to her. Enforcers from Purgatory have arrived to take out the Deliverers to keep evil from spreading and innocents from dying. And there's one Enforcer, Mattias Youngblood, who is hell-bent on tracking them down.

Krayley must go on the run from the faction and her fate. Yet, as the darkness swirls about her, she might not have a choice but to give in to save herself.

Fans of "Shadow Falls" by C.C. Hunter, "Crave" by Tracy Wolff, and "The Mortal Instruments" by Cassandra Clare will enjoy "Messages From the Damned."

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