Ashley Quincy-Brownon is a twenty-two-year-old waitress in Los Angeles. She looks and acts like any typical Valley Girl, to anyone who doesn't know her, using her looks to do anything she'd like. Behind her Barbie-like looks and personality lies a detective. With a best friend in the LAPD, she can get authorization to any case she wants, so when she receives a text from her friend, telling her to head to a crime scene, she finds it normal. There, she finds only one clue, a fingerprint. She thinks it is hopeless when she meets the shady gardener. Oddly, he keeps popping up, with a motive, at all the other crime scenes. To add to the mix, all the victims have a weird neighbor, so Ashley knows something is just not right. Will she find the culprit before he strikes again?
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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