SuitabookSuspicion of the outsider
Kacey is welcomed as a newcomer, then becomes isolated and a focus of suspicion after Bailey disappears.
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Kara Thomas - Author
This is an atmospheric, twist-heavy missing-person mystery about a newcomer whose friendships, family history and reputation come under pressure.
Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister. Kacey s new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls she s even been welcomed into a tight new circle of friends. Bailey and Jade invite her to do everything with them. Which is why it s so odd when they start acting distant. And when they don t invite her to the biggest party of the year, it doesn t exactly feel like an accident. But Kacey will never be able to ask, because Bailey never makes it home from that party. Suddenly, Broken Falls doesn t seem so welcoming after all especially once everyone starts looking to the new girl for answers.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an atmospheric, twist-heavy missing-person mystery about a newcomer whose friendships, family history and reputation come under pressure.
Kacey is welcomed as a newcomer, then becomes isolated and a focus of suspicion after Bailey disappears.
Bailey and Jade’s friendship with Kacey is complicated by exclusion, hidden motives, diaries and conflicting accounts.
Kacey leaves a volatile relationship with her mother and enters a previously unknown blended family while facing police attention and social pressure.
Attention may be warranted for disappearance and possible violence, blood, frightening supernatural imagery, family volatility, police suspicion, emotional dysregulation and complicated friendship or romantic tensions.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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