After: Monday 13th May, Milla
After: Monday 13th May, Rachel
The Night She Dies: Friday 3rd May, Jess
After: Monday 13th May, Rachel
After: Monday 13th May, Milla
After: Monday 13th May, Rachel
After: Monday 13th May, DI Simon Finnemore
After: Monday 13th May, Sean
After: Monday 13th May, Milla
After: Monday 13th May, Rachel
After: Monday 13th May, Rachel
After: Wednesday 24th July, Jess
After: Saturday 27th July, Rachel
Epilogue
A Letter from Sarah Clarke
Keep Reading …
Acknowledgements
Dear Reader …
About the Publisher
For Scarlett, Lily & Millie
And all teenage girls
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Prologue
I killed someone.
I say the words soundlessly into the mirror. It’s dark – I haven’t switched the light on – but I watch my mouth move in greyscale.
I killed her.
Worse than someone, a girl. A young person with most of her life still unlived.
Was dying young her fate? Written in the stars alongside other people’s love stories or long, dull existences?
Or did I rock the universe when I lost my temper and didn’t think through the consequences?
I turn away from the mirror, but I refuse to feel ashamed. I can’t say whether she deserved to die, but no one could argue that I wasn’t provoked, that I didn’t have good reason.
They say that revenge can make people to do crazy things, and I guess tonight I proved that was true.
I look back at the mirror.
Do I regret the killing?
Would I do it again if I could choose?
