It’s scary to live in a world where those around you don’t believe your words, even your own parents. Amanda Script was labeled a ‘Psycho Murderer’ after she supposedly killed her best friend, Lexi and was sent to a school for the mentally disturbed – Thorn Leaves Psychiatry. After three long years she spent there, she became numb and silent. The hollowness grew inside her every day, so she stopped showing her face to everyone around her, with that she gained a new label “Hooded Psycho”. A few days after her seventeenth birthday a newcomer is brought into the psychiatry, and it seems that he knows a little more about her best friend’s murder than her...
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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