The Cross Case
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Six years ago, the town of Ashridge buried the truth.
Daniel Cross was found dead in the woods. A rope around his neck. A note pinned to his chest. His sister, Lila Cross, was never found.
The case was closed as a murder-suicide.
Everyone accepted it.
Everyone moved on.
Except they didn't.
Because in Ashridge, no one talks about the Cross twins. Not really. Their faces still hang in the school corridors. Their names still linger in the quiet. But every question is met with the same answer:
It's over. It's done.
Sophie Hale doesn't believe that.
What starts as an A-level research project quickly becomes something more when Sophie begins to uncover the cracks in a case everyone else has forgotten-or chosen to ignore. The evidence doesn't add up. The story doesn't make sense. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes:
Daniel Cross didn't kill his sister.
But someone did.
And in a town built on silence, the truth was never meant to be found.
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