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Forest Mist

The Blood that Divides Us

All seventeen-year-old Alyssa LeClae wants to do in life is get straight As, attend an Ivy League college, and read her dark romance books in peace. But everyone hides something...her secret just goes a bit deeper than the bruises and scars constantly appearing on her body. What doesn’t help is the fact that her best friend hosts a true crime podcast, sprinkling even more violence into her life than she already has.

 

Everything changes, however, on what should’ve been a regular Monday - a classmate is stabbed to death in the school bathroom. Alyssa’s best friend is considered the number one suspect on everyone’s radar because of one controversial episode she recorded.

 

In an attempt to take the blame off her friend, Alyssa is forced to work with her academic rival, Matteo Romano, to solve the case...who seems to know a lot more about the murder than he’s saying. But will the infamous killer claim them first?

 

If you're looking for a fast-paced high school murder mystery book similar to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and One of Us is Lying, with a hint of a trauma-filled enemies to lovers couple like Binding 13, then this is the perfect book for you.

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Labeled Innocent, Presumed Dead

Family isn’t always blood…but this blood is shed from your family.

 

What would you do if you were recruited to an FBI organization run by teenagers?

 

That’s the problem sixteen-year-old Natalia Serenelli is facing; her hacking skills land her a role in the top-secret group of mismatched agents with polar opposite skillsets—and personalities—called the Bureau. Their main focus is rescuing missing women and children, but things get complicated when it hits Natalia a little too close to home.

 

Five years prior, her older sister, Alison, snuck out to her criminal boyfriend’s house…though was never seen again, nor was a body found. A secret relationship gone seemingly wrong, police refused to reveal his identity and the FBI dismissed her case as a ‘runaway’. Natalia knows there’s a much darker force at play, however, and this only increases her trust issues in the authorities.

 

So it comes as no surprise when secrets unravel…secrets that the organization are keeping about their involvement in Alison’s case. But when things heat up between Natalia, another flirtatious member, and the Bureau’s ruthless leader, she has to make the impossible choice: her suspicious found family…or her biological family of liars.
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For fans of The Naturals, The Inheritance Games, and Pretty Little Liars, this brings a new generation of teenage detectives with government ties, a love triangle, and a whole lot of secrets.

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