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The narrative warns of the Devil’s Backbone Society and its brutal initiation, describing coercion, abduction, and fear surrounding disappearances and a supposed “suicide” involving Sarah Black. As the writer explains how scholarship dreams turned into entrapment, the text emphasizes secrecy, distrust, and the urgent need to record evidence before the next victim.","DEAR READER  \nDEVIL’S BACKBONE  \nBOOK ONE  \nTATE JAMES  \nOCEANOFPDF. COM  \nTate James  \nDear Reader: Devils Backbone \\#1  \nCopyright © Tate James  \nAll rights reserved  \nFirst published in 2025  \nJames, Tate  \nDear Reader: Devils Backbone \\#1  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  \nCover design: Antoaneta Georgieva  \nEditing: Gretchen Stelter  \nProof reader: Aubergine Editing  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENT WARNING  \nYour mental health is important! If you need any specific information about what might be included, please reach out on [contact@tatejamesauthor.com](contact@tatejamesauthor.com)  \n[Potential triggers may include:](Potential triggers may include:)  \n Dub-Con  \n Bully  \n Murder  \n Abduction  \n Attempted Sexual Assault  \n Mugging  \n Cheating (not within the main couples)  \n Suicide  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nForeword  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nChapter 41  \nChapter 42  \nChapter 43  \nChapter 44  \nChapter 45  \nChapter 46  \nAlso by Tate James  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is dedicated to autocorrect, for always dropping ducks where you  \nleast expect them.  \nDuck you, autocorrelation.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDear Reader, if you’ve found this diary, then I must be dead. That’s the only way I’d have let anyone find this account of what’s been happening to me. What they’ve put me through. What they’re still putting me through.  \nIfyou’re reading this…then I’m dead and the Devil’s Backbone Society is responsible. You, whoever you are, will probably be next.  \nI should probably start at the beginning, so you have context for what I record next, so you can understand how they fooled me for so long and how I ended up where I am now. Probably dead. Definitely dead, because you, dear reader, have found my journal. Iswore that if they let me live, I’d destroy any evidence against them…  \nBecause of where I plan to hide this book, you must be a student at Nevaeh University. I was too. When I got awarded the Mariah Greenberg Scholarship, I thought I’d won the lottery. All my dreams were going to come true at Nevaeh. How utterly wrong I was.  \nThe first time I heard about the Devil’s Backbone Society was a month after the school year started. I was at a party with my friends, beside Lake Prosper, and overheard some girls whispering about “initiation ” and speculating on who would be  \nchosen . The criteria for selection seemed to be obvious. Wealthy, influential, beautiful—only the best were invited to join . But then apparently, each year a few extras were chosen at random. Cannon-fodder, the girls called them.  \nSomeone died. No one will talk about it, and when I tried to ask my TA what had happened, she shushed me very abruptly. All I know is that a girl named Sarah Black supposedly jumped off Cat’s Peak at midnight. But ifit was unrelated to the DB Society, why is everyone pretending it never happened? Or worse than that, they’re pretending she never existed at all. 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