"Wouldn't it be fun, little girl?"
"A little game of hide-and seek wouldn't hurt, don't you think?"
Ocean Stone is a beautiful and brilliant girl with a protective boyfriend, a sad father, a brother who went off to college and misses her, and a dead mother.
Christopher Stone is a detective, and a good one. Ocean has watched her father solve cases with ease, but only one has been such a mystery.
One day, she met a strange and bizarre man, and ever since then, she felt as though everything that used to be hers, wasn't hers. She decided to keep her mouth shut until the right time, but she was too late.
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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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