❝Her Soul Was Beautifully Chaotic,
The Lies That Cascaded From Her Mouth
Hid The Darkness That Stirred In Her.
A Type Of Darkness That Taunted Her,
That Made Her Put Borders Around Her Heart
So No One Could Dare Enter
Without First
Breaking Them Down
Piece By
Piece.❞
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As Hazel Peterson moves to the town of Maple Wood, she leaves behind her past, her secrets...
Once she arrives at her new collage she hopes that no one will ask questions, questions about why she keeps to herself, questions about her past.
As her classmates, a bubbly girl named Kora, a quiet guy named Henry, and the valedictorian, Ryder, push themselves into her life making it harder for her to keep up her facade.
Ryder slowly becomes curious about the girl, he attempts to break the walls that surround her heart, but as new events unravel it becomes more difficult to work his way in.
Will her new found companions stay around the beautiful liar know as Hazel? Or will they leave her to wither away like everyone else...
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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