From the cover:
"Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.
The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.
Ellery knows all about secrets. Her mother has them; her grandmother does too. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous--and most people aren't good at keeping them. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself."
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After their mom lands herself in rehab, Ellery and her twin brother, Ezra, move away from California to live with their grandma in Echo Ridge, a small town in Vermont. Echo Ridge is a far cry from what they're used to, but while Echo Ridge may seem like a sleepy little town on the surface, it has a dark past. The twins' aunt went missing her senior year in high school and was never found, and just five years ago the town's homecoming queen was strangled to death at the aptly named local theme park, Murderland. Ellery, obsessed with True Crime and unsolved mysteries, is wary of Echo Ridge from the moment they arrive, and for good reason when ominous threats begin to appear, suggesting that whomever murdered Lacey Kilduff might be back for more. Ellery is determined to get to the bottom of the unsolved mystery of Echo Ridge's missing girls, but will her digging into the town's secrets stir up more trouble than she is prepared to handle?
WHEW, my friends, Karen McManus does not mess around! I started reading this book in the early afternoon yesterday with every intention of taking it slow...nope. Stayed up past my bedtime to finish it because it was impossible to put down. I started off with every intention to take notes as I read and document my theories, but I pretty much got "it's always the boyfriend" a couple of chapters in and then could not stop reading long enough to write anything else down. This book is fucking intense, and it will leave you chilled to the bone, right down to the last chapter.
