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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

“I read Candace Swain’s journal. I know what happened to Adele. The police now have the journal and they will be calling you. You told Candace at the Spring Fling that you were willing to come forward about what happened to Adele but wanted to get a lawyer to protect yourself and the others. It was an accident. I think you’re smart enough to know that you wouldn’t have been prosecuted for a crime, maybe get a slap on the wrist. Rachel talked you out of it. Now, you have no choice. If you don’t speak up and tell the truth, Rachel will come after you. She killed Candace, she killed Taylor, and she poisoned Nicole.”

“Killed? You think Rachel killed Candace? No, she wouldn’t. That homeless drunk killed Candace. That’s what the police said.”

“That’s what Rachel told you the police said, and I think she steered the police in that direction. She’s dating the lead detective.”

“Do you have proof of any of this?”

“Candace’s journal is proof of what happened to Adele. Rachel’s not walking away from that. She’ll lose her job, at the minimum. But I want to get her on murder. I want to give Candace’s family answers. And if Nicole Bergamo dies, that’s another murder charge.”

“You’re not a cop.”

“No, which gives me a lot more leeway in finding the proof I need to put that woman away for a long, long time. I have enough circumstantial evidence that the police are going to revisit Candace’s homicide and go back to Adele’s disappearance. If you don’t come forward now, Rachel could consider you the only loose end. You need to do the right thing.”

“You’re saying because Candace was going to come forward about Adele that Rachel killed her. God, that’s insane.”

Regan couldn’t tell whether Kim believed her or was dismissing her.

“I can give you the name and number of the detective in charge—the detective who replaced Rachel’s boyfriend. He’ll tell you exactly what I’m saying.” A slight exaggeration, no cop would share such theories, especially over the phone, but maybe Kim didn’t know that.

“Okay.”

“Okay what?”

“I’m calling my lawyer,” Kim said, “then I’ll have him contact Flagstaff police. Is that good enough?”

“For now, but you need to do it sooner rather than later.”

Kim hung up without another comment.

Forty-Three

Rachel was angry. A slow boil that had been percolating for weeks was now about to explode.

Steven kept declining her calls.

They’d had plans for tonight because his daughter had a sleepover at a friend’s house, but he only responded to one of the many text messages she’d sent today.

Sorry, busy, important case, talk to you later.

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