Mythroot has been a fantasy house since the first book. Elves, phoenixes, gem swords, talking roots. So let me be straight about this one. Pretty Dead is a thriller. Six books, no magic, a body at the bottom of a drained country club pool, and a narrator the whole town already convicted.
Her name is Sunday Cross. Two years ago her older sister Margot drowned in the lake the night of the town regatta. It was ruled an accident. Then the town did the other thing it does, the quiet thing, and decided the real story was that Sunday, who was down at the water that night, must have had a hand in it. Nobody charged her. Everybody believed it anyway. She has spent two years as the girl who got away with something she never did.
She did not touch Margot. That is the one thing she knows for certain, and it is the engine of the whole series. Sunday cannot prove her own case yet, so she works everyone else's. When a kid in Mercy loses someone to an accident that does not add up, they come to her, because she is the only person in town who will actually look. They started calling it the Accident Club, and the name stuck.
Each book is its own mystery, the kind you can solve right alongside her if you are paying attention. Underneath all six runs the question that actually keeps me up at night: what happened to Margot, and which of the people Sunday loves let the town pin it on her. I am writing toward an answer I already know. She is the one who has to find it.
Book one is Don't Tell. The other five are Don't Slip, Don't Breathe, Don't Look, Don't Burn, and Don't Drown.
Nobody dies on purpose in Mercy. That is the first lie.
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