by Nancy Bush
First published 2011
Coby Rendell shares secrets around a campfire with her closest friends during their final summer before senior year. A terrible accident splits the group apart that foggy June night. Twelve years pass. Coby attends a birthday party reunion, but the celebration turns deadly when someone discovers Yvette's sister dead in a hot tub. More friends from the original circle start dying in what appear to be accidents. Coby suspects murder. She works to solve the mystery while fighting her attraction to Danner Lockwood, the detective handling the case. Someone watches Coby's every step. The killer will murder again to keep a devastating secret buried. Coby must uncover the truth before she becomes the next victim.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dark, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Campfire, Hot Tub
Period: Twelve Years Later
426 pages · Paperback · Zebra Books 2011-06-28
Content warnings: murder, violence