Chase Barns has been an outlaw since he pulled his last heist – on his own father, the president himself. President Barns sends his son to Beast Academy, the place where the worst of the bad kids go. Chase meets a girl there – Ember. She's the meanest girl he's ever met, but she is what he needs to escape Beast Academy.
But when he escapes, the director of Beast Academy – also Ember's mom – is found dead, and all evidence points to Chase. Being the president's son, he's allowed 72 hours to prove he's innocent. But with the president's top adviser, Henry MacArthur, hunting him down, can he survive long enough to find evidence of who REALLY committed the crime?
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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