Till Human Voices Wake Us
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Publisher Description
Black Mirror meets A Good Girl‘s Guide to Murder when a teenage girl’s relentless investigation into her best friend’s death plunges her deep into a dangerous underground society where every secret has a price.
Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. The price of his clandestine operation? Cia’s entire family, and her leg. So, when her best friend Alice says she has a secret too, Cia wants nothing to do with it—even if it could shed light on her family’s dark past. But Alice doesn’t let go so easily, especially when her search for answers might help find Noah, the boy who broke her heart before going missing two months ago.
But then the police find Alice’s body floating in the quarry.
Now Cia would give anything to know Alice’s secrets. Because Alice would never have jumped, no matter what the cops think. Desperate to figure out what happened to her friend, Cia picks up the threads of Alice’s investigation, plunging deep into a shadow world of augmented reality. As she untangles one web of lies after another, Cia finds herself pursued by an enemy that will pay any price to keep their secrets buried. But the girl who already lost everything isn’t about to back down now. Her only chance to avenge Alice lies in exposing an underground society preying on those they think no one will miss—but danger lies closer to home than she imagined.
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When she was five, Cia lost her entire family—and her leg—in a mysterious fire. Now 17, Cia's best friend Alice claims she has a secret surrounding her recently disappeared ex-boyfriend Noah that could also shed light on that terrible night. But Cia doesn't want to dig up the past. Following an argument, the friends part ways, only for Alice's body to be discovered in the quarry hours later. Though the police believe Alice died by suicide, Cia and her friend Will aren't convinced. Together with Will and Noah's twin brother Judah, Cia conducts her own investigation into Alice's death and discovers clues pointing toward a suspicious pattern of missing youths from the neighborhood. As the trio delve deeper into the town's seedy underbelly, they realize that Alice's death, the disappearances, and the fire that killed Cia's family are connected to a larger web of crime. Debut author Roque confidently weaves together dynamic characters with complex histories to riveting effect. Cia is at once a brave and vulnerable, trusting and wary heroine whose empathy propels this suspenseful mystery thriller. Main characters read as white. Ages 12–17.