A group of rebelious teenagers who hate each other with their entire heart finds themself on a schoolbus filled with hatred an anger because of the school pricipal's sudden decision to send them on a trip to learn how to get along and stop being rebelious towards each other, but what happens when they get lost and there school bus runs out of fuel in the middle of a unkown location.
The squad had to set up a camp in the dark with nothing but a few extra clothes and branches but when the sunrise the next moring and they went to see if the busdriver was working on a plan to get fuel, they found him unconsious, cruelly murderd and layinging a puddle of his own dark red blood with a note written in red ink or was it blood that spooked the squad so bad that they started to run and did not turn back.
They found themself running from someone who hunted them for their blood and lifes.
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
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A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche?
*2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller*
[[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]
Cover designed by April Alforque