Synopsis:
Keeping secrets ruined her life. But the truth might just kill her.
Piper Woods can't wait for the purgatory of senior year to end. She skirts the fringes of high school like a pro until the morning she finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins. She's sure the book is too gruesome to be true, until pretty, popular Stella dies after a sex-tape goes viral. Everyone's sure it's suicide, but Piper remembers Stella's name from the book and begins to suspect something much worse.
Drowning in secrets she doesn't want to keep, Piper's fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text message daring her to make things right. All she needs to do is choose a name, the name of someone who deserves to be punished...
GONE TOO FAR
by Natalie D. Richards
Chapter One
Late. So late. I slam the car door behind me and race across the parking
lot. My hair is tangled in the strap of my messenger bag, my shoes are untied,
and I have no idea how I’m going to get to my locker without getting caught. I
have to try because I need those
chemistry notes.
Technically I needed them last night
when I’d actually had the time to study for my midterm, but I didn’t think it
was a big deal. I know the materials and I figured I could do a little
last-minute cramming during first period homeroom. It was a decent plan until
my phone battery died, taking my morning alarm down with it. Now I’ll be lucky
to catch the last ten minutes of first period.
I hop the curb and slow as I slide
into the shadow of the ancient brick school. It’s probably not classy to barrel
through the door like an escaped convict. Of course, it probably wasn’t classy
flying into the parking lot doing Mach 2 either.
I check my barely charged phone for
the time as I climb the first step. My foot slips on something halfway up the
stairs. It’s like hitting a patch of ice. I lunge gor the handrail and jerk
myself upright, glaring down at the thing that tripped me –a dropped notebook.
Nothing special. It’s a plain,
spiral-bound pad, the kind you can get at the drugstore for less than a buck.
Pretty much worthless, excerpt I know it’s probably chock-full of notes. Notes
seomone will need during midterm week.
Oh, fine.
I snatch the notebook off the steps
and shove it into my bag. Lost and Found is going to have to wait though. It’s
in the student store, which is on the opposite side of the school.
by Natalie D. Richards
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At seven, Natalie D. Richards wrote about Barbara Frances Bizzlefishes (who wouldn't dare do the dishes.) Now she writes about awesome girls, broody boys, and all things dark and creepy. Natalie lives in Ohio (Go Bucks!) with her techno-wiz husband, three amazing kids, and a seventy pound dust-mop who swears he's the family dog. Her psychological thriller, Six Months Later, will be released in October 1, 2013 by Sourcebooks Fire. Until then, you'll probably find her writing her next book or trying to wade through the towers of dog-eared paperbacks that have taken over her bedroom.
