A thriller featuring a bisexual Indian girl with mental illness through a mystery featuring queer relationships, deaths, and disappearances.
Publisher’s Description:
Kalah knows better than to fall for Beth Taylor . . . but that doesn’t stop her from falling hard and falling fast, heart first into a sea of complications.
Then Beth vanishes. She skips town on her eighteenth birthday, leaving behind a flurry of rumors and a string of broken hearts. Not even Beth’s best friend, Britney, knows where she went. Beth didn’t even tell Kalah good-bye.
One of the rumors links Beth to Britney’s boyfriend, and Kalah doesn’t want to believe the betrayal. But Brit clearly believes it—and before Kalah can sort out the truth, Britney is dead.
When Beth finally reaches out to Kalah in the wake of Brit’s suicide, Kalah wants to trust what Beth tells her. But she’s swiftly realizing that nothing here is as it seems. Kalah’s caught in the middle of a deadly psychological game, and only she can untangle the deceptions and lies to reveal the unthinkable truth.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Representation:
Gender:
Cis girls: Kalah, Beth, Britney
Sexual and Romantic Orientation:
Kalah is bisexual. Her romantic orientation is never specifically named.
Race/Ethnicity:
Indian: Kalah
White: Britney, Beth
Disability:
Kalah has anxiety.
Trigger Warnings:
Suicide, murder.
Additional Notes:
Ownvoices: Queer, Asian