Jasmine didn’t die by suicide. Sage knows that as surely as she knows the sky is blue and small towns bury the truth to protect their own.
Bridgewater pretends to be picture-perfect—football games, church gossip, and families with smiles that never reach their eyes. But Jasmine saw the cracks, and she wasn’t afraid to pry them open.
With the power of popularity and a taste for chaos, she started collecting secrets—of their classmates, their teachers, and the people who sit on every town board that matters. Hypocrisy, affairs, addictions, bribes—Jasmine called it accountability. Everyone else would call it dangerous.
Sage never meant to help her start a war. But Jasmine was gravity—brilliant, infuriating, unforgettable. Together, they built a list that could torch half the town’s reputation in a single night.
Then Jasmine ended up dead.
The police called it suicide. The town is ready to move on. Rumors have already started rewriting the story.
But Sage refuses to let Jasmine be forgotten—or dismissed.
With Jasmine’s notes, screenshots, and unfinished plans in hand, Sage starts digging into what really happened the night her best friend died. The deeper she goes, the more it becomes clear: Jasmine didn’t just uncover secrets.
She threatened the wrong person.
And in Bridgewater, the truth isn’t buried. It’s protected.