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It’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

 In only a few months, the small town of Hagen has lost two high school seniors, both under suspicious circumstances. When a third senior, the mayor’s son, drives through the plate glass window of the town’s diner and ends up in a coma, the deaths no longer seem unrelated accidents. The boy’s tox screen is clean and the doctors can find no medical explanation for what his parents insist was just an accident. The town is paralyzed with fear and students deny any knowledge of what’s happening, but Detective Kylie Milliard is certain at least some are lying.  

Kylie, Hagen’s sole investigator, fears that something sinister is at play, but the mayor and his attorney wife are working hard to sweep their son’s incident and the other deaths under the rug, calling them unfortunately accidents. Mounting discord between Kylie and the sheriff pushes her to consider a move to a bigger city and a new job, but she’s not going anywhere until she determines how the incidents are connected.  

Whoever is behind the dangerous stunts is determined not to be revealed. To keep their secret, they’re willing to kill anyone who gets too close. With time running out before the next casualty, Kylie is in a race to find out who is running this twisted game.  

Until she does, no one—not the students, nor the town, nor even Kylie herself—is safe.