Zed Hurst dedicated his life to the dead. As a forensic pathologist, his work has distanced him from his family and isolated him from his peers. The work is lonely, but he is fulfilled in bringing families closure and victims justice.
Mavis Buckley moves into town, the charming new neighbor and morgue tech, who shares Hurst's devotion to digging through bodies. Working by his side, she has never felt so alive.
With the bodies piling up and a serial killer quickly becoming the talk of the town, one of them believes that they make a perfect duo - in more ways than one.
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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