Teenager Botan Mathew was going through quite a phase indeed. Just this December, a girl from the high school in which he worked as a narc and detective, was killed, sliced up so bad people started saying that she would be buried in a plastic bag, and he was hired to solve the case. A high payment was promised, but he still had to do schoolwork, deal with insane family feuds, secrets, a new attraction to his narc partner, and on top of it all, strange red zinnia flowers had started blooming near his area, and where the girl was killed . Will he actually solve the case? Or will all this end with a bleeding heart, a broken family, and grades lower than his own self esteem?
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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