ChellaArinze
When seventeen-year-old Delta Okafor loses her mother to cancer, she's forced to leave New York City and move across the country to live with her glamorous Aunt Helen-a beloved television personality in the picture-perfect town of Danbury, Tennessee.
When Delta arrives, she knows almost nothing about her mother's life there.
As far as she knows, Vera grew up in Illinois, studied art, moved to New York, met Delta's father, and built a life far away from the South.
At least, that's the story she's always been told.
Danbury is everything Delta isn't.
Old money.
Private schools.
Friday night football.
Perfect families.
And secrets polished so well they look like tradition.
As one of the only Black students at the prestigious St. Augustine Preparatory Academy, Delta has one goal: keep her head down, graduate with honours, get into Brown University, and leave.
Then she meets Bruce Wellick.
The town's golden boy.
Star quarterback.
Son of one of Danbury's most influential families.
After one unexpected conversation at a party, Delta goes from invisible to infamous overnight.
But Bruce isn't the biggest distraction.
When a girl disappears, Delta can't shake the feeling she's seen this story before.
A girl vanished ten years ago.
Another fifteen years before that.
And another twenty-five years earlier.
Then Delta discovers something her mother left behind: a list of names.
Names belonging to people from Danbury.
People connected to families who have spent decades protecting the town's perfect image.
And when the people connected to those names begin dying, Delta is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her mother and why Vera spent so much of her life making sure Danbury stayed in the past.
Because whatever happened here all those years ago...
someone is still keeping score.