From debut author Kathleen Gwozdz comes a gripping thriller that will keep you up long past midnight. In the seemingly peaceful town of Dartmoor, New Jersey, hidden sins and long-suppressed vengeance are about to collide. 

 

Friends Ashley, Chloe, Naomi, and Serena attend their fifteen-year high school reunion ready for some fun, but most alumni keep their distance, given their former reputations as ‘mean girls.’ When they meet for dinner two weeks later for a post-game analysis, they discuss the anonymous and menacing letters they received but decide to dismiss them as a pointless prank. But when Ashley is found murdered with an axe a month later, things start getting real. The remaining three friends mourn her loss, but not for long. Another gruesome murder takes their number down to two leaving Serena and Naomi with an impending sense of doom as they wonder who’s next. 

 

Local detectives and sisters, Tess Sherman and Blake Phillips, are assigned to both cases. Inspired to join the force following their own parents’ unsolved murder decades earlier, the sisters share a common bond, instinctively making them the perfect partners. While piecing together the victims’ connections, it becomes clear that they were not only members of a much-hated clique, but their deaths are possibly linked to a manipulative and calculating high school teacher they knew as students.

 

The deeper Tess and Blake dig in, the more alarming and sinister the secrets are that may have gotten these women killed. 

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