How to Disappear

By Ann Redisch Stampler

A girl on the run and a boy sent to kill her clash in a deadly chase.

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416 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Nicolette is on the run after a murder near her home, unsure if she's a witness or the culprit. Jack, with a family history of crime, is tasked with finding and eliminating her. As they race across the country, their cat-and-mouse game blurs lines between hunter and prey, right and wrong. With lives and hearts on the line, who will outsmart whom? In this tense thriller, assumptions are challenged, and nothing is as it seems.

From the publisher

This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed–or committed?–and the boy who’s sent to kill her. Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she’s pretty sure she can get away with anything…until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette’s house. Which is why she has to disappear. Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A’s and athletic trophies can’t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price. As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensions–and attractions–run high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.

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