Farren Jones, just turning 20 gets kicked out by her stepmother in her own father's house. Only a few years earlier her mother died in a car crash, and her father remarried. Kellie Jones, the evil step-mother in all of Disney fairy tales. After having no place to be she finds Travis Voyalx, a hot lifeguard who found her weirdly. They went to high school together but never talked but when she needed a house Travis texted her out of the blue. It was strange but she didn't question it. Why would she? She has a semi-normal life. However, none of it was by mistake. Travis didn't just text her out of the blue offering her a job and a roof over head. It was all planned. Farren didn't realize it yet, but her life is far from normal. She would soon figure it out when strange things began to happen around the city.
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*
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Cover designed by April Alforque