OUR ALIBI

They told the same lie. Neither knew the other would.

Seventeen-year-old Nora Bell knows what a missing sound can do. Cut two minutes from a recording, and a deliberate choice becomes a mistake. Share a private voice message, and a relationship falls apart.

Then her best friend disappears.

June Avery's last message tells Nora to wait. She's getting an explanation. She'll call when she's done.

She never does.

When the questions begin, Nora says she spent the evening at her ex-boyfriend Eli's workshop. Eli gives the same account.

It should make them look innocent.

Except both of them left.

Nora has a reason to hide where she went. Eli has a reason to hide who he saw. Correcting their stories means exposing secrets that could cost Nora her future—and force her to trust the boy she believes betrayed her.

But June had secrets of her own.

As Nora follows a trail of altered submissions, forwarded messages, and conflicting accounts, the people offering help become harder to separate from the people steering her away from the truth. Someone has already changed how her work is heard. Someone has already decided which version of her everyone should believe.

Now the only person who might explain why is missing.

And beneath June's final words, a sound Nora almost ignored may be the clue that brings her home.

OUR ALIBI is a gripping YA psychological mystery thriller about fractured friendship, dangerous secrets, and a second-chance romance tested by the truth.

Their lie protected them for one night. Finding June will mean giving up that protection.