Sixteen-year-old Diana didn't know Emily McGillicuddy before she disappeared. She had passed her in the hallway a few times, watched her play soccer once or twice and passed her a cup of beer at a party one night. They weren't friends or lovers or enemies; just casual strangers. But now that Emily has been brutally murdered, Diana finds obsessed with her. Their wealthy, vicious community, the elite Franklin Grove, might have forgotten about her, but Diana certainly hasn't. So when a new girl in town, a girl with a deceptively pretty face and an unsettlingly mysterious past, starts to fill the gap that Emily left, she notices, even if nobody else seems to.
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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