Angel is smart.
Almost extraordinarily smart, so when the recesses of her mind begin to reveal scenes and places that don't add up to what she knows, what she perceives to be the truth - she sets off to find the secrets of what she is and what she has done.
Yet she finds out that even her genius can be kept under lock and key, promises can be broken and abused over and over again, and people can just as easily kill to get what they want.
When Angel is sent to a school for gifted children, she isn't oblivious of the hell that lies beyond the iron gates, but she finds out just how intelligent she can be when humans are stretched to their limit.
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
*****
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