A clique of popular girls is haunted by the tragedy that marked their high school friendship fifteen years before in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense.
âAn increasingly tense race to find whoâs doing the killingâand whoâs going to survive.â âThe Oregonian
First they were five. Then they were fourâŚWho will be next?
In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were Bristol High Schoolâs pretty, popular, elite clique, known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta, and Zora . . . ABCD & Z. Their classmate, Emmy, could have been âE,â but with her embarrassing scholarship student status they chose wealthy Zora instead. That was 15 years ago. Even then, backstabbing and betrayal erupted among the group, three of whom are now gathered around a hospital bed. And most of it revolved around Tanner, the man lying close to death before them . . .
To Delta, it feels as if a nightmare unfolds every time they reunite. It started at their senior graduation party when a group of daredevils led by Tanner slipped under the safety rope and tumbled into a dangerous, fast-flowing river. One of the Five died following him. It all seemed a spontaneous, thoughtless tragedy at the time. But since then, there have been more deaths, more âaccidents.â And the question hovers, unspoken: whoâs next?
As the body count rises, Detective Chris McCrae, one of Deltaâs classmates and a long-ago friend of Tannerâs, realizes that stopping the terror means unearthing the past. Hidden beneath the gossip and scandalous half-truths are secrets that someone will kill again and again to protectâuntil thereâs no one left to tell . . .
A clique of popular girls is haunted by the tragedy that marked their high school friendship fifteen years before in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense.
âAn increasingly tense race to find whoâs doing the killingâand whoâs going to survive.â âThe Oregonian
First they were five. Then they were fourâŚWho will be next?
In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were Bristol High Schoolâs pretty, popular, elite clique, known as the Five Firsts: Amanda, Bailey, Carmen, Delta, and Zora . . . ABCD & Z. Their classmate, Emmy, could have been âE,â but with her embarrassing scholarship student status they chose wealthy Zora instead. That was 15 years ago. Even then, backstabbing and betrayal erupted among the group, three of whom are now gathered around a hospital bed. And most of it revolved around Tanner, the man lying close to death before them . . .
To Delta, it feels as if a nightmare unfolds every time they reunite. It started at their senior graduation party when a group of daredevils led by Tanner slipped under the safety rope and tumbled into a dangerous, fast-flowing river. One of the Five died following him. It all seemed a spontaneous, thoughtless tragedy at the time. But since then, there have been more deaths, more âaccidents.â And the question hovers, unspoken: whoâs next?
As the body count rises, Detective Chris McCrae, one of Deltaâs classmates and a long-ago friend of Tannerâs, realizes that stopping the terror means unearthing the past. Hidden beneath the gossip and scandalous half-truths are secrets that someone will kill again and again to protectâuntil thereâs no one left to tell . . .