It is the week of Christmas and Susan Hamley is living the life. She's getting proposed to Christmas morning, her beautiful four year old daughter is finally starting to warm up to Jace, her future fiancee.
But when Susan is gone for about an hour doing some shopping and comes home, she finds this isn't the perfect Christmas she had planned. Her daughter and boyfriend were murdered. Beaten to death and shot in the head. And, it turns out that her team is on this case.
While Susan spends her time working, she can't help betray her love with Jace when her new candy cane lovin', badass parter, Jack comes to town. Looks like instead of Preposals and presents, this Christmas, it will be candy canes and cases.
And, maybe a bit of revenge.
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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