Dead...cool...and still is how 16 year Lexi Gander was discovered in a ditch cover in blood dripping from everywhere . It was a horrific night and she was hanging out with some of her older friends who were around 18 and 21, so of course Lexi looked older than she really was and she could sneak into clubs at night while her foster parents were asleep. She wasn't a very good student and she got into trouble with some drugs before in the past years. But to her friends she was very lovely and beautiful. She had been in a previous relationship with her closet friend David. That relationship ended in abuse and abortion. She was only 15. If she came home and told her family she was pregnant they would have thrown her out. So she borrowed money from her friends who dealed... The other money she either stole or sold out drugs to people. Her life was a wreck, but what really killed a healthly teen girl? Drugs, herself, someone or something else........
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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