“Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day.
Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out--he's been working two jobs since his family's business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up.... again.
So when Cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into Ivy and Mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. They'll ditch and go into the city. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they've barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say...
Until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school--and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse.
It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common. They all have a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something.
Now they're all wondering--could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all?” - taken from Goodreads.com
Karen McManus’ latest mystery takes place over the course of one action-filled day. Cal, Ivy, and Mateo were inseparable in middle school after sneaking out during a field trip. Their friendship has been non-existent since the beginning of high school. On the morning after Ivy losses the student council president election after holding office for the previous three years, she is devastated. Seeing Cal and Mateo in the parking lot before school, Ivy and the boys decide to skip school and recreate that day of adventure from the middle school field trip.
Things go downhill fast as the three discover a dead body and uncover a drug ring in their hometown. With each one keeping secrets from one another, it's not long before they are in a race for their lives to uncover who is the mastermind before one of them is next. I wasn’t sure where the author was going with the ending until the rug is pulled out from your feet.
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