Then she meets her new next-door neighbor Ayden Gregory. Outgoing, spunky, and musically talented, she’s constantly surrounded by family and friends, yet she still feels there’s something missing. If she was bad Maddie all along and that maybe she was a killer.Lyric Scott has always had a good life. Maddie doesn’t want to believe she’s a killer, but she begins to question who she really was in her past. Each time she wakes up from one, she’s near a murder scene with no recollection of what happened the night before and this helpless feeling like she’s losing control of her life.

That is until she starts having blackouts. Maddie manages to keep her twisted thoughts hidden for the most part. Bad Maddie rebels and has dark thoughts of hurting people and sometimes even killing them. Good Maddie goes to therapy, spends time with her family, and works on healing herself. Sometimes it even feels like she might be two different people completely-the good Maddie and the bad one. In the aftermath, Maddie’s left struggling with who she is-the forgotten girl she was six years ago or the Maddie she is now. When she was fifteen years old, there was a tragic accident and she was left with amnesia. Twenty-one year-old Maddie Asherford is haunted by a past she can’t remember. Can the two of them ever get enough peace in their lives to conquer their fears and finally tell each other the truth about how they feel? Read online

Plus, there never seems to be a right time to say it, either the case, Preston, or life getting in the way. He’s also fallen in love with Violet, but fears telling her the truth, that it will scare her away or worse, she won’t reciprocate the feeling. But as a recovering alcoholic and gambler, Luke has his own struggles to overcome. Thankfully, she survives and makes a promise to herself to put her life back together and to try and figure out exactly how she feels about Luke Price, the one person that’s always there for her. When some unexpected news comes her way, it’s the final straw and she ends up doing something that almost costs her life.

Between her stalker, Preston, refusing to leave her alone, her parents’ case still being unsolved, and falling behind in school, she always feels on the verge of losing it.

The evanescence by jessica sorensen