The Nights At An Ice-Cream Shop
Sixteen-year-old Sophia and her best friend Tanya take a late-night job at a small, nearly empty ice-cream shop, expecting easy money and freedom from their dull routines. Instead, they are trained by a voice over the phone and given a single rule that feels less like policy and more like a warning: no one leaves empty-handed.
The manager never appears in person. The customers behave as though they’ve rehearsed their lines. Orders are given without explanation, and mistakes are corrected with unsettling calm. What begins as a strange but manageable job quickly turns disturbing when reality around the shop begins to feel unreliable. Time slips. Details repeat. And something is always watching from the dark.
When their fiercely ambitious friend Daisy becomes involved, the balance between the three girls begins to shift. The shop seems to respond differently to each of them—testing, isolating, and quietly dividing them. As tensions rise, Sophia realizes the job was never about serving customers. It is about maintaining a system.
A system that replaces what it loses.
The girls uncover hints of a cycle that stretches far beyond their small town—one involving past employees, vanished workers, and a role that must always be filled. Breaking the cycle may require defiance. Surviving it may require sacrifice.
By the end of the novel, the trio’s friendship is fractured, the truth about the shop is only partially uncovered, and one role within its system has been permanently claimed—setting the stage for a multi-book series exploring loyalty, ambition, and the cost of escaping a structure designed to endure.
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