* Year 2023 *
Young children from all over the world, are taken from their homes and sent to Australia, where the Australian government are using testing facilities to mutate people. Once successfully mutated, they are then sent to another planet in the galaxy, where the survival rate is under 10%.
These kids must learn to master their mutations and survive together, whilst working with their differences.
Is there a way to get home and reverse the mutations and live a normal life? Or will they forever struggle on another planet?
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
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A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche?
*2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller*
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Cover designed by April Alforque