This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessedβor committed?βand the boy whoβs sent to kill her.
Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And sheβs pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicoletteβs house. Which is why she has to disappear.
Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight Aβs and athletic trophies canβt make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price.
As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensionsβand attractionsβrun high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.
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