{"product_id":"my-best-friend-is-a-cryptid-9798244924541","title":"My Best Friend is a Cryptid","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): M. M. Crusinberry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - Dark Fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeg's best friend has been lying to her since they were kids.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly... she isn't lying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's \u003ci\u003enot human.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone in town knows Sara-quiet, sweet, a little strange in the way some people just are. And Meg has loved her forever. They grew up side by side, stitched together by inside jokes, late-night walks, and the kind of friendship that feels more like fate than choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil Sara starts glitching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForgetting what food is. Reacting wrong to mirrors. Humming a breathy, impossible language that makes moths gather like they're listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Meg finds a hidden journal... and the truth snaps her world in half: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara isn't Sara.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cryptid has been wearing her face since childhood-watching, learning, blending in. Loving Meg with a devotion that's too fierce to be fake... and too inhuman to be safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer real name is \u003cb\u003eMika\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now a shadowy government agency is hunting cryptids in Meg's town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Meg tells the truth, she loses her best friend forever.\u003cbr\u003eIf she stays silent, she risks losing herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the hunters aren't just searching for cryptids.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey're searching for \u003cb\u003eMeg\u003c\/b\u003e-the human anchor Mika can't let go of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd whatever lives in the fog is learning how to steal voices, rewrite memories, and turn friendship into bait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkly funny, deeply tender, and threaded with modern folklore, \u003cb\u003eMy Best Friend Is a Cryptid\u003c\/b\u003e is a high-concept YA contemporary fantasy about identity, loyalty, and choosing the monster who chose you first.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571593920663,"sku":"9798244924541","price":2146.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798244924541.webp?v=1774887659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/my-best-friend-is-a-cryptid-9798244924541","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}