A determined journalist investigates a secluded school for "gifted" children, only to uncover a chilling secret that links its eerie students to a string of disappearances -- and an unspeakable horror lurking beneath.

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Journalist Melony Barnes arrives at the secluded Talonford Home for Gifted Children, lured by whispers of its enigmatic reputation and the promise of a compelling story. The mansion, shrouded in decay and eerie silence, houses a peculiar group of children whose unsettling behavior defies their youthful appearance. The reclusive caretakers, Mr. and Mrs. Shonts, maintain a tight grip on the school’s secrets, brushing off Mel’s probing questions with practiced smiles.

As Mel delves deeper into the mansion’s shadowy history, she senses a darkness far beyond eccentricity. Her investigation uncovers chilling clues: aged photographs where the children look unchanged, empty graves hidden in the nearby woods, and the lingering scent of ash. She learns the grim truth—the home sits atop an ancient spring that grants eternal youth, but at a horrifying cost. The children are centuries-old souls, trapped in perpetually youthful bodies, their minds twisted by greed and centuries of moral decay. Those who overindulge in the spring’s power suffer a grotesque demise, reduced to ashes and forgotten whispers.

When Mel stumbles upon evidence of murder and deceit, her investigation turns into a nightmare. To silence her, the children use the spring’s power to strip away her adulthood, leaving her trapped in a ten-year-old’s body. Now, surrounded by eternal predators and unable to convince the outside world of her identity, Mel must find a way to escape the mansion’s nightmarish cycle -- or risk becoming another lost soul, forever a child, eternally imprisoned by time.

THE FOREVER CHILDREN