Lisa Loggins wants to be an actor like her famous parents before her. She lives a happy life. Her family is rich, though her parents never spoiled her, and loves her dearly. Her high-school sweetheart proposed to her. Her ambitions lead her in the direction of fame and glory-everything everyone could ever want. But her life turns a corner and falls off a cliff.
Her family and friends are murdered before her eyes. Her fiancé leaves her after taking her virtue. Her nights are cursed with her sobs and the screams of her loved ones. Someone saves her, though Lisa can’t remember her, and she takes Lisa’s pain away.
That was almost four years ago. Now Lisa is well on her way to becoming the greatest detective of her time, preparing to hunt down her parent’s killer, who had disappeared off the face of the Earth four years before.
Lisa is tested with a case to see if her class should be able to graduate. The air smells of murder as she and chosen comrades are sent to solve a murder in their neighboring town. The murder quickly becomes a victim of a serial killer. Lisa is helpless as those closest to her start dropping like flies. It’s a race against time to find the killer before more die. It starts to look hopeless, but then the killer is revealed. No one expected it, least of all Lisa. How could the killer be so close yet so far? How could she not see it coming?
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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