Tori Parks is many things. A teenage volunteer at a New Hampshire hospice center. College-bound, with a bright future. A girl with the potential to do something great. Until the summer she turns 15, where she befriends fellow volunteer Jude Reid. Little does Tori know, Jude is involved with death herself, and is looking for a replacement-which will be Tori, weather she likes it or not. Tori is introduced to a part of the world she would have rather stayed hidden. Suddenly, Tori's future is not glistening with hope-she knows where she is going, what's coming next. But when there is a spree of murders among the residents of hospice, Tori is forced to step up into her new role to find the culprit. Things lose clarity, and Tori realizes that Jude has more secrets than she realized.
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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