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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

“Do you know who wrote that email?” Rachel asked. “The one Vega read on air, about seeing Candace driving onto campus Sunday night?”

Vicky shook her head. “I sent an email to everyone right after the podcast, promised confidentiality, but no one has gotten back to me. It makes us look bad. But I’ll find out.” Nothing could remain a secret for long here, and Vicky was good at getting information.

“I’m sure she thought she was doing the right thing, but if anyone knows anything they need to go to the police, not call into that sensationalist program.” Rachel looked at her watch. “It’s late, but maybe you can get everyone together for a quick meeting? I want to make sure that the girls know that they can come talk to me or the police about anything, but we don’t want to contribute to an amateur podcast that is doing more harm than good.”

“Yeah, I’ll have everyone who can meet down in the Rose Room in fifteen minutes.”

Vicky texted out the announcement to the Sigma Rho loop. “Done.”

“I’m also going to reach out to Regan Merritt myself,” Rachel said.

“Do you think that will help?”

“I don’t know, but I want her to have the facts, not just Vega’s twisted version. If the police believed that Candace was killed by someone other than Joseph Abernathy, they would be pursuing it. I have faith in the system, and more, I have faith in Steven—Detective Young—who has been straight and honest with us from the beginning.”

“Maybe Regan Merritt should talk to him,” Vicky said. “If she hasn’t already.”

“That’s an excellent idea,” Rachel agreed. “But I doubt he’d talk to her, not after she’s aligned herself with Vega.”

“Let me know what she says, because juggling all this with only two more months until graduation is stressful.”

Rachel gave her a hug. “I know. It’ll be over soon.”

From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain

From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain

Yoda said, “Do, or do not. There is no try.”

I’m not a Star Wars fan. I don’t get it. I don’t like science fiction or anything not set on this world, in this reality. But Chrissy has always loved Star Wars. I never understood how two girls who came from the same two parents and were raised in the same way could be so different.

I had promised to pick Chrissy up from a party. She didn’t have her license yet, so my little sister became my responsibility. It didn’t help that Mom and Dad were divorced and still fighting about everything. I thought that divorce meant silence, acceptance, an end to the constant bickering. But no. It just means fighting over the phone or using me and Chrissy to send messages back and forth.