Josie has been on a break from her job but is ready to go back. This book begins where Hush Little Girl ended. 'I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.' - Ally CarterĪnother solid and enjoyable book in the Josie Quinn series! As the members of the support group are picked off one by one, every second counts for Josie to save the lives of these loving parents who have already suffered the loss of those they treasured most… Someone connected to the accident is out for revenge. The case takes an agonizing turn when the body of another young mother is found near the site of the bus crash. Painstakingly dissecting the lives of these grieving couples, it’s clear to Josie that each of them is hiding something about the day of the accident-but whose secret is worth killing for? Hours later, Josie finds Krystal’s body beside her daughter’s grave, her lips sealed together forever with wax.įorensics match the wax to one of the candles lit in memory of the sweet little souls who died, giving Josie her first lead to a support group made up of the parents who lost children in the crash. On her first day back with the Denton PD after a major trauma, Detective Josie Quinn is on the hunt for a missing woman, Krystal Duncan, the mother of one of five children killed in a devastating school bus crash. But the wax dripping from her cold blue lips means it’s already too late to save her… Her eyes are fixed on the ground and her mouth is parted in a silent prayer. The woman is kneeling at a gravestone, her hair blowing in the breeze, a bunch of wilting yellow daffodils on the grass beside her.

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