When 16-year-old Emma Navarro goes missing, the well-to-do town of Menteuse, Ohio is in shock. Including Arbor Hayes, Emma's life-long next door neighbor.
Everyone loves Emma: a straight A student, captain of the girl's varsity soccer team, girlfriend to the handsome and charismatic president of their junior class. After weeks of searching, Emma's truck is found abandoned in a corn field hours from home, with traces of blood and a torn letterman jacket strewn in the back seat. She's presumed dead, and the rescue mission turns into a recovery.
Six months later, Arbor's taken over as captain of the soccer team and has even started dating, but she's still struggling to move on from the tragedy. There are so many unanswered questions, not only about Emma's disappearance but the secrets her best friend was keeping—even from her.
When she receives a mysterious text, her world is turned upside down. It's from Emma's cell phone, stating she's alive. When she reappears in town, she's different somehow. But after information comes to light about her harrowing ordeal, she can't be surprised her best friend has changed. Though much about Emma remains the same—down to the matching tattoos they both share—something's just not adding up.
Is Emma Navarro really back from the dead, or is there more to the story than what she's letting on?
Author Bio: Darly Jamison is an award-winning author who was once fired from the library for continuously reading on the job. She grew up in the Midwest and spent her childhood days buried in whatever scary book she could get her hands on and her nights hiding under the covers from the fictional monsters lurking between the pages.
Her debut novel, a contemporary romance called STRAWBERRY WINE, was published by Kensington in 2017 as a result of winning The Write Affair Contest. She is a two-time Watty Award winner and has been commissioned to write promotional campaigns for Hulu, Warner Brothers, and Paramount Pictures. She has also contributed a chapter to THE WRITER'S GUIDE TO WATTPAD: ACOMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO BUILDING AND SUSTAINING A SUCCESSFUL CAREER, which was published by Writer's Digest in 2018. Most recently, her psychological mystery DOWN CAME THE RAIN was invited into the Wattpad Paid Stories program. She is a proud Wattpad Star and has an online following of over 100,000 on social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Wattpad.
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