Gavin Hill is ready to turn his life around. After spending most of his life behind bars at a Juvenile Detention Center, he's 18 now, and not looking to let his legacy haunt him into adulthood. But when a strange girl throws herself into his passenger seat and his life, Gavin is forced to befriend a stranger in interest of staying the good Samaritan.
And when that stranger ends up dead, there's a mess of explaining to do.
Now he is thrown into a dangerous game much bigger than himself, with all the odds stacked against him. And he'll find that it's much more difficult to prove that he hasn't done the crime than to get away with one.
After all, who would believe a man who's always guilty once he finally claims to be innocent?
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