Chapters (62)

Cover
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Chapter Thirty-nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-one
Chapter Forty-two
The Letter
Chapter Forty-three
Chapter Forty-four
Chapter Forty-five
Chapter Forty-six
Chapter Forty-seven
Chapter Forty-eight
Chapter Forty-nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-one
Chapter Fifty-two
Chapter Fifty-three
Author’s Note
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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She interrupts. “Nothing. I shouldn’t have said that. You know I can’t talk about the case with you.”

“Jesus, Michelle. You’re the one who brought it up!”

There’s a noise behind me and I whirl around. Gwen’s standing down at the end of the hall. She doesn’t even seem to register me, just her parents’ angry voices floating toward her.

The expression on her face punches me in the gut: her sad eyes, her turned-down mouth, her pinched eyebrows—they all look so familiar, so much like what I see on my own face in the mirror.

—

When Zach drops me off at home, all the lights are off and the mail is still tucked in the box. I want to ignore it, but I can’t.

I find it exactly where I knew it would be, under a pile of catalogs and a few bills: another thick envelope from the county jail.

Zach’s mom’s words run through my head: There were reasons behind her survival.

Reasons.

I need to know what he has to say.

I rip open the letter.

The Letter