Trisha Brent has been through hell and back, which only makes her more qualified for the job as a homicide detective with the Santa Fe, New Mexico's Special Victims Unit. Over the years, she thought she's seen it all, until a case, so similar to her own tragic past, lands on her desk. A woman has been strangled and is key to a man's identity. With her dead, the only thing Trish has to go on is a handful of Polaroid pictures, each alone, oddly meaningless, but together, hold clues to unraveling the truth.
He wakes with a splitting headache, naked as the day he was born, with no memory of who he is. To make matters worse, he's somehow involved in a woman's death, the key to the motel room he's in, found in her purse. Could he have had something to do with this woman's murder, or is he as well, a victim of the killer's revenge-a retaliation that now might cost him his life since he could be the only thing keeping the killer's identity from coming to light?
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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