A breakout thriller with ripped-from-the-headlines hooks, told in a narrative that jumps back and forth in time from present-day California where a high-school guidance counselor tries to connect with her teenaged step-daughter who says her new stepmom gives her a “bad vibe,” to 20 years ago, in a small prairie town where three 13-year-old girls committed a gruesome crime that tore apart an entire community. USA TODAY bestselling author Rick Mofina will appeal to fans of Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben and James Patterson.
Some mistakes can never be forgotten—or forgiven.
Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart.
Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter suspects that Emma is hiding something. Now, with her celebrated true-crime author husband digging into a decades-old murder case for his next book, and a suspicious accident involving someone who’s been following her, the perfect life Emma’s built is crumbling, forcing her to take desperate steps to save it…
