Five witnesses told the truth. Their stories can't all be true.
On a January night, Westbrook's beloved track coach is struck and killed on the dark access road behind the athletic complex. The driver doesn't stop. By morning, five people have told police what they saw, and the whole town has decided who did Daniel Rios, the kid everyone already had an opinion about.
Caleb Mercer knows what it's like when a town makes up its mind. Three months after he rebuilt the minutes that brought his sister home, he's back to running sound at school concerts and trying to be ordinary. But the more he listens to the witnesses, the more their stories sound the same. They don't sound like five people who saw one thing. They sound like five people who heard one story.
As the case against Daniel hardens, Caleb has to learn the difference between a hunch and a fact anyone can check. Pushing too hard on the wrong witness could cost him the truth.
A tense, twisting YA mystery about memory, rumor and the cost of being sure. Book Two of The Westbrook Mysteries.
