Dangerous lies - Becca Fitzpatrick

STELLA

GORDON'S LIFE IS A LIE.

She does not belong in Thunder Basin, Nebraska. As the star witness in a murder trial against a drug dealer, Stella is now in the Witness Protection Program. The small-town locals can never know who she really is. Not even Chet Falconer, the one boy who makes her want to reveal her true self. She knows that telling the truth will only bring violence to this safe haven.

Despite how hard Stella tries to stay under the radar, danger is fast approaching.

Criminals have a way of getting rid of wit-nesses, and Stella may have made the one mistake that could lead the cold-blooded men hunting for her right to her doorstep

I HADN'T REALIZED HOW TENSE I WAS until they-Price, Charles Menlove, and the detectives—left. When they showed up tonight, it was as if they'd brought Philly with them.

The secrets I'd been running from had finally caught up with me.

But the detectives were gone now, and the world was beginning to slow. I felt the wide open spaces surrounding the farmhouse envelop me. My problems receded into the shadows and life seemed simple again. I felt cool, sweet relief.

Tonight Thunder Basin didn't feel like a prison. It felt like a set of open doors at the end of a long, painful road, beckoning me

closer.