When Flora's mother calls after 11 years of silence on her 16th birthday, she knows something's up.
With her mother's direction, Flora and her girlfriend Sophie uncover a stack of letters in the attic, addressed to Flora's Great-Great-Great Grandma Lucille from a woman named Isabella Louise. But when they read the letters, Flora and Sophie are thrown into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse searching for extremely valuable lost artwork- before it falls into the wrong hands.
But soon they face more and more questions- who was Isabella Louise? Was Lucille being fully honest in her letters?
And who can the girls really trust?
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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