What happens when a murderer is too lazy to clean up his own bodies? He hires someone else to do it for him. Chess Finnegan is a cleaner, and strictly a janitor of dead bodies. He doubles as a starving artist and tries to survive in the real world as an orphaned PTSD survivor. The cleaner and the killer have never met in person, and when one of them makes a mistake, the alliance quickly falls into a rivalry.
This story is thrilling and full of twists and turns as the characters reveal ugly truths about each other. With a unique antagonist unlike any other, you'll be sure to keep the pages turning to find out who succeeds and who fails in an anonymous battle of morally disturbed humans.
Oh... and you'll also find out why it's called Cherry Pits.
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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