Elizabeth is perfectly normal. She is smart, pretty, and nice. Everyone likes her. She seems to be perfect in everyone's eyes. Or is she?
Liz's step-father doesn't think so. Neither does her mother. But her sister Katie thinks she can do anything she sets her mind to. But Liz constantly wonders what to do. How to help. But she never figured it out. What can she do?
Liz's step-father, Thomas, is abusive and rude. But Liz doesn't understand how her mother, Mary, could have fallen for such a mean man.
Now seventeen, Liz has run out of options. She has to get out of there. She can't take it anymore. She has to get help. It's the only way to stop him. Stop him from hurting Katie.
But, when Liz takes action, she finds things out she never knew, and probably didn't ever want to know.
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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