Chapters (43)
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Prologue - Life After Death
- Chapter 1 - Charmed Life
- Chapter 2 - CSI, Tucson
- Chapter 3 - Spinning Her Wheels
- Chapter 4 - Paper Trail
- Chapter 5 - Extreme Times Call for Extreme Measures
- Chapter 6 - A Criminal History
- Chapter 7 - The Ultimate Prank
- Chapter 8 - Truth or Consequences
- Chapter 9 - Daddy’s Little Girl
- Chapter 10 - Fish Out of Water
- Chapter 11 - Nothing Like a Threat at 2 A.M.
- Chapter 12 - A Secret of a Different Kind
- Chapter 13 - Double the Trouble
- Chapter 14 - An Opening... and a Closing
- Chapter 15 - An A for Effort
- Chapter 16 - X Marks the Spot
- Chapter 17 - Tremors and Treachery and Threats, Oh My!
- Chapter 18 - The Writing on the Wall
- Chapter 19 - Creepy Vampires to the Left, Stalkers to the Right
- Chapter 20 - Service with a Snicker
- Chapter 21 - Tweet, Untweet
- Chapter 22 - The Awful Truth
- Chapter 23 - The Viking’s Revenge
- Chapter 24 - Almost, But Not Quite
- Chapter 25 - One Down, One to Go
- Chapter 26 - A Shove in the Dark
- Chapter 27 - Walled In
- Chapter 28 - The Darkest Place in the World
- Chapter 29 - The Aftermath
- Chapter 30 - Clever Little Bitches
- Chapter 31 - The Moment We’ve Been Waiting For
- Chapter 32 - A Moment in Time
- Epilogue - A Moment in Time
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Books by Sara Shepard
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
“I know it doesn’t make sense. But there was someone there. Someone wrote that message.”
He gave her the same look Madeline had. “You’ve been under a lot of stress. Are you sure it wasn’t a dream?”
“It didn’t feel like a dream.” Emma pulled the nurse’s blanket tighter around her, feeling sweat from her palms melt into the rough wool. “I think it was the Twins,” she said. She hushed her voice and told Ethan about what Charlotte and Madeline had said about Sutton doing something to Gabby that landed her in the hospital. Then she told him about the pill bottle Gabby had removed from the bag. “It was something called Topamax. I’ve seen Gabby popping pills before, but I always thought it was a party thing. Do you have your phone? I need to Google it.”
“Emma,” Ethan said, urgency in his voice. “Someone just told you to stop digging.”
Emma sniffed. “I thought you didn’t believe me about the board.”
“Of course I believe you—I just hoped it wasn’t true.” Ethan’s eyes burned a dark blue under the florescent lights. “I think it’s time we put an end to this.”
Emma ran her hands down the length of her face. “If we stop, that means whoever did this to Sutton will have gotten away with murder.” Then she swung her legs over the tiny cot. Blood prickled through her body as she rose to her feet.
“What are you doing?” Ethan exclaimed, watching her make her way to the filing cabinets along the wall.
“Gabby’s medical history will be on file with the school if there’s any type of problem,” Emma whispered. She yanked open the file cabinet marked E–F and ran her fingers over the worn manila folders until she found FIORELLO, GABRIELLA.
Heels clacked along the hallway, and Emma froze, listening as they grew louder and then faded as they passed the nurses office. Emma pulled out Gabby’s folder and saw that it was crisper than the others, as if it hadn’t done the time to earn worn edges. She thumbed through the contents and let out a low whistle. “Topamax, Gabby’s medicine? It’s to treat epilepsy.”
“She has epilepsy?” Ethan narrowed his eyes. “I feel like I would’ve heard about that.”
Emma kept reading. “It says the disease was dormant until July, and that ‘an incident triggered the first seizure.’” She raised her eyes to Ethan. “The train prank was in July. What if Sutton caused her epilepsy?”
“Jesus.” Ethan’s face paled.
Emma slipped the folder back into the drawer and guided it shut with her hip. “The Twitter Twins must have been beyond furious—maybe even angry and crazed enough to plan Sutton’s murder.”
Ethan’s eyes were round. “You think the Twins . . . ?”