An innocent young woman, accused and blamed for all sorts by people, decides to call herself Amaryllis, a name no one knows to protect herself.
She also hides by toughening her heart by satisfying her senses - she is in many ways, just a female Marquis De Sade and Count von Masoch, but she is unaware how bad she is because she is a good person.
She isolates herself from people. But humans need company so she goes to people who accept her even though these people are worse than murderers and more criminal than criminals. They have their own plans for her.
She believes they want to help her.
Her guardians, the Zombie Pimps are helpful but unreliable because they are busy with their pimp-work in the next life.
One day someone she knows dies because of her and it dawns on her they were her safety net and that her friends are not her friends, just dangerous people and the Zombie Pimps are just Zombie Pimps.
She finds ways of coping.
This is where she becomes worse than the Marquis De Sade or Count von Masoch.
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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