Eleanor believed acceptance to the Meadows would better her life, but the seemingly perfect institution hides a dark agenda, and after her graduation, Eleanor grapples with her experience as she uncovers the fate of her lost love, Rose.
After wasting twelve years in the Kevinian Cult, seventeen-year-old Minnow rebels. They take her hands in punishment. Soon the cult's camp has been burned and their prophet murdered, and the police are sure Minnow knows something she is not telling them. Minnow struggles to free her mind from the cult's lies as an FBI investigator makes her an offer, one that may let her start her life over--if she can bring herself to tell the truth.
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.