"Please, stop with the dramatics, a gun, really Seth" she scoffed.
"You've know how I felt for so long, so damn long and this is what you do"? he half shouts
"Don't bring her into this, you weren't man enough to go after her, you didn't have enough confidence to act on your feelings" Andy rolled his eyes and stared into his now former best friend's blood shot red eyes.
He couldn't see his friend anymore, the person standing there threatening to kill one of them was not his friend. Those were the eyes of a mad man driven by the intoxicatingly dangerous poison called love.
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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