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Chapters (42)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  42. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The past and present were blurring, and Izzy was having a hard time keeping them separate. She wanted to follow Robert Twist down the path he’d sniffed out, the secrets he might have revealed about the supposed suicide pact. At the same time, she was here to solve his murder, not a decades-old mystery.

Mia. She was the link between it all. She was the one who’d recognized Robert Twist, the one whom he was asking about. She was the one who’d gone into the lighthouse with two of her friends and emerged the only survivor. She was the one who swayed on her feet and blinked too long and looked, at times, for the all the world like she was simply going to burn to the ground where she stood, float into the air like ash. Disappear.

Izzy trusted her, she did. And more than that, she knew Mia hadn’t been to the island recently, so that probably gave her an alibi for the murder. That didn’t mean, though, that she didn’t have more secrets that she was keeping tucked away. Had that call Sammy made been to Mia? Was it worth it to find out?

All of them, they were all threads. Izzy just had to find the right one to tug. Then those lies they so dearly loved to tell would start to unravel.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

MIA

At first Mia thought the pounding was in her head, the migraine that had been coiling at the base of her skull finally unleashed. But the pain she was expecting as she blinked awake in the early-morning light was absent.

“Mia,” Edie said from the bedroom doorway. “Think you better get down there.”

When her bare feet touched cold hardwood, she hissed but didn’t pause as she tugged on a sweatshirt and headed toward the stairs.

“Iz,” she called down the hallway but didn’t wait for a response. There was someone out there, banging on the front door, and Mia didn’t know how long the small house could withstand the attack.

When Mia yanked open the door, she ducked, just to the side, in case a fist was headed toward her face. The hit didn’t come, though.

Instead, Cash’s hand dropped. His eyes were wide, panicked and unfocused.

“You,” Cash snarled, an accusation and challenge. He was on her in two steps, his fingers curling into the collar of her sweatshirt, hauling her up to her toes. “You did this.”

Her world narrowed down to the two of them, his bared teeth, the anger in his voice. He could toss her like a rag doll against the side of the house if he wanted.

“Let me go.” She said it in the firmest voice she could, stripping any fear from it in the process. “Cash, let me go.”