"There was no sign of a struggle," Genevieve began to read aloud, "Which means that she potentially knew and trusted her attacker. Her footsteps led to a set of tire tracks, which lead to an abandoned car in a copse of trees three miles away from a ranger station. The tracks vanish from there, and the car was cleaned of fingerprints, blood, and any fragment of DNA." A bump startled Genevieve, but she soon relaxed once she realized it was her cat.
"Calm down, Idaho," she said, "you're scaring me and not the mouse that's been living underneath the sofa for the past three weeks. It's eating up your cat food, so you can be lazy all you want." Genevieve smiled as she saw Idaho stretch out on the sofa and fall asleep on her back.
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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