A teen girls attempt at social reinvention takes a deadly turn when a co-worker disappearsand she learns she may have been the last person to see the missing girlin this razor-sharp, murderously funny thriller debut.
After the incident last year, Greta Riley Green is looking for reinvention, a fresh start, a chance to run away from the many secrets shes suddenly hiding. A job at Hyper Kid Magic Land, the local amusement park, seems like the perfect way to forge a new path . . . no matter what it takes.
When fate pulls Greta into the orbit of Mercy Goodwin, star of the parks most popular show, it feels like things are looking up. Beautiful and confident, Mercy dazzles audiences daily. And at the first party of the summer, she picks Greta to confide in. Mercy has a secret to share, if Greta will just meet her the next day. Its a sign that Gretas truly fitting in.
Only, when the time comes, Mercy is a no-showas she is everyday after that. She just stops coming to work. Greta knows somethings wrong. She cant help thinking back to the night of the party. Did Mercy seem upset? Terrified, even? Could she be in trouble? It wouldnt be the first time a talented young performer came to a sinister end at Hyper Kid. . . .
Of course, Greta has her own issues with the past, and the more she uncovers Hyper Kids secrets, the more her own threaten to surface. This job was meant to be a reboot, a summer without trouble. But trouble, it seems, finds Greta, and her pastand the bloody past of Hyper Kidis about to catch up with her.
