❛gloria regali❜
7:30 am, Clifton Prep
It's early in the morning when the Student Council is having their weekly meetings, and all is well --until the Student Council President drops dead. Suspicion falls upon the Student Council. The influential school press paints the President as a tragic figure who's life was unfairly taken so soon. They'll soon find that there's more to the story, and not everything is as they seem.
No one knows why the rooms were locked on that particular day. No one knows what actually happened during that meeting. Only one thing is certain: the six members of the Student Council are somehow connected, and one of them is the killer.
With the hungry press on their heels and the heavy suspicion weighted on them, the six members of the Student Council must work together to decipher the identity of the murderer before they become his next target.
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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