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The novel follows Jill Newman during her senior year of high school at Gold Coast Prep.
But now, shes getting texts indicating Graham may be innocent.
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Then novel publishes Aug. 4 and is available forpre-order.
Everything is a risk or a well-placed trap.
But thats not how Shaila Arnold went.
Thats what her death certificate says.
Thats what went down in the record books.
But thats not really how she died.
I think she died from anger, from betrayal.
From wanting too much all at once.
From never feeling full.
Her rage was all-consuming.
I know this because mine is, too.
Why did we have to suffer?
Why were we chosen?
How had we lost control?
Its hard to remember what we were like before, when anger was just temporary.
Anger was easy then because it was fleeting.
A rolling wave that crashed ashore before it settled down.
Things always settled down.
Now its as if a monster lives inside me.
Shell be there forever, just waiting to crack open my chest and step forward into the light.
I wonder if this is how Shaila felt in her last moments alive.
I know that because Shaila Arnold was so many thingsbrilliant and funny, confident and wild.
She wasnt all that good.
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