Andrew has been traveling with the carnival since he was five years old, and has never had another life. His life is anything but stable but he loves it anyway, traveling and meeting new people everywhere he went. But one year, while the carnival had returned to it's birthplace in Dallas Georgia, Andrew meets somebody who is different, strange even. She looks at him as if he were a ghost.
He brushes it off, seeing as he's a carnie, and of course nobody likes carnies.
Andrew expects this trip to the hometown of the carnival to be as long as any other trip, two-three days tops, but something happens that keeps him there much longer than he planned. Something that he thinks might change his life and keep him there forever.
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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