Twenty-five-year-old Noella Booker is a female detective in New Orleans who is assigned a case to find a man who has been showing up to people's homes and massacring them.
Twenty-nine-year-old Luke Burns is a Russian bartender in New Orleans with interesting hobbies.
Noella and Luke meet when Noella has a rough night and decides to unwind by going to her town's bar. She meets a 6'2, tie wearing, pale ivory, fancy man with slick black hair and blue eyes deeper than the Pacific Ocean. Luke is intrigued by the 5'7, tan, dress wearing woman with deep red hair and hazel eyes.
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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