<\/a><\/p>\nNicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she\u2019s pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette\u2019s house. Which is why she has to disappear.<\/p>\n
Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A\u2019s and athletic trophies can\u2019t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price.<\/p>\n
As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensions\u2014and attractions\u2014run high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t