What would you do if you weren't the biggest fan of your classmates, and then a notebook bursting with scandalous secrets about them came into your possession? Piper Woods, the protagonist of Natalie D. Richards' new thriller GONE TOO FAR faces this very dilemma, and when a horrible tragedy and an anonymous text nudge her to start exposing, she begins a spiral that's almsot impossible to stop.
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About GONE TOO FAR:
Keeping secrets ruined her life. But the truth might just kill her.
Piper Woods can't wait for the purgatory of senior year to end. She skirts the fringes of high school like a pro until the morning she finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins. She's sure the book is too gruesome to be true, until pretty, popular Stella dies after a sex-tape goes viral. Everyone's sure it's suicide, but Piper remembers Stella’s name from the book and begins to suspect something much worse.
Drowning in secrets she doesn’t want to keep, Piper’s fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text message daring her to make things right. All she needs to do is choose a name, the name of someone who deserves to be punished...
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Excerpt:
This message feels different. Part scolding and part…invitation? The words needle through me, full of cold promise. I want to ask what he means. And I want to know who this is.
They saw me in the hallway that day. That much is obvious, but that also narrows it down to practically anyone in the school. So why text me and not someone else?
--Don’t act like you don’t know what happens around here.
The notebook flashes through my mind with its precise letters and lined pages. Goose bumps rise on my arms. The book. Whoever’s texting me must have seen me with it. I flipped through it in homeroom and in the parking lot, so anyone could have seen.
But it wasn’t just anyone. It was someone who knew what was inside that book. Someone who’d read it. Maybe even the person who wrote it.
I pull out my phone, finally knowing my response.
--This is about the notebook, isn’t it?
There’s a long pause after that. Good. About time I’m not the only one caught off guard.
--Maybe. Does it even really matter?
Bingo. Now I know who it is. Sort of.
--Your sick little diary can’t help Stella. Or anyone else.
--Maybe not, but we can. Send me a name. Help me make someone pay.
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Ohioan and Double RWA Golden Heart Finalist Natalie D. Richards won her first writing competition in the second grade with her short story about Barbara Frances Bizzlefishes (who wouldn't dare do the dishes). After getting lost in a maze of cubicles, Natalie found her way back to storytelling, following the genre of her heart --- teen fiction. Natalie lives in Ohio with her amazing husband, their three children and a giant dust-mop who swears he’s the family dog.
