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Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  22. Sixteen
  23. Seventeen
  24. Eighteen
  25. Nineteen
  26. Twenty
  27. Twenty-One
  28. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Twenty-Nine
  37. Thirty
  38. Thirty-One
  39. Thirty-Two
  40. Thirty-Three
  41. Thirty-Four
  42. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. Thirty-Six
  45. Thirty-Seven
  46. Thirty-Eight
  47. From the Journal of Candace Swain
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Letter Found in the Journal of Candace Swain
  58. Forty-Eight
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Booklist
  61. Excerpt

“You can pass my offer along to anyone else who wants to talk. I answer the calls during the podcast. All you have to do is tell anyone at the sorority that when they call, they can tell me they want their voice disguised. I’ll have it all set up. I promise.”

Nicole was thinking, but she didn’t commit.

Lizzy needed to push her. “Regan Merritt is coming back tonight. Lucas is going to detail everything about Candace’s death and everything he’s learned since Tuesday night. There’s a lot. And I think you might have information that you don’t know is important to put this all together. Regan said the police are listening to the podcast, and if we find something, they’ll investigate. Someone needs to answer for Candace’s murder, don’t you think? Don’t you think her sister would rest easier knowing what really happened?”

“Okay,” Nicole said. “My group and I will listen, and if we’re all in agreement, I’ll call. If you promise you’ll keep my name out of it. Because I don’t know if I can really help. I just came here to tell you that there are many of us who think the podcast is a good idea because we want to know what happened to Candace.”

Nicole walked out first, alone. Lizzy called Lucas. “Where are you? We need to talk, right now.”

Thirty

Lucas sat in his truck across from Taylor James’s house. Lizzy wanted to talk to him in person, said it was important, so he agreed to meet her at his apartment in an hour. He should have asked why—she sounded super excited about something—but he was preoccupied with what he planned to do.

When he ended the call, his roommate, Troy, said, “Lizzy? Wow, she can talk a mile a minute, can’t she?”

“Yeah,” he said, noncommittal.

He’d brought Troy along with him because he wasn’t an idiot: he knew there was safety in numbers. And Troy was built like a football lineman, which could be intimidating if you didn’t know him.

The neighborhood might have been nice if more houses had been fixed up. But most were falling apart, separated from their neighbors by tall trees and overgrown shrubs. A fire hazard, he thought.

He shouldn’t be here. He had wanted to tell Regan his full theory. He almost did earlier today because he had a feeling she was fishing around for something, but he didn’t know how she would take it. He hadn’t shared it with anyone, not even Lizzy—though Lizzy knew about his ex-girlfriend, Amanda, and she knew about Amanda’s missing sister, Adele.