Lizzie Lovett had it all going for her. She was the most popular girl at school. She was polite, pretty, and appreciated by all. Well, not by all. Hawthorn has always been fascinated by Lizzie Lovett, who graduated with her brother three years ago. Hawthorn both loathes Lizzie for her easy way of life, and wishes she could be her. Unlike Lizzie, Hawthorn is gangly, almost friendless, self-centered, without goals or ambition, and suffers from a weird name and weirder parents. So when Lizzie disappears during a camping trip in the woods with her boyfriend Enzo, Hawthorn cannot avoid getting caught in the investigation into her disappearance. Plus, she's one of the first to know Lizzie has gone missing, so for once she can initiate the rumor mill and not be its subject.
Lizzie's vanishing suddenly triggers a wave of speculation in the sleepy town of Griffin Mills. Did her boyfriend kill her and bury her body? Did she walk out of the woods at night and has recreated herself elsewhere? Or did, as Hawthorn suspects, transform herself into a wolf? As Hawthorn digs around, she sinks even more in Lizzie's former life, spending time with Lizzie's boyfriend, though he may be the killer, working at the same restaurant Lizzie worked, and all the while accumulating more information about the girl people eventually forget as time moves on.
But what was once a passing interest becomes an all-consuming passion as Hawthorn pursues the ghost of Lizzie Lovett. Spending so much time looking for minute details in a girl's identity might cost Hawthorn her own...
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