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“I’ll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren.
I didn’t even help. Well, not intentionally.”

When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary’s school, is found dead, the student body is left reeling and wondering who the murderer could be… Jess, a student under strict instructions to keep her record clean or risk losing her scholarship, finds herself at the centre of the investigation when it’s revealed that Hugh died in the exact same way as a character in a short story she wrote.

And then Jess receives an anonymous text thanking her for the inspiration.

With time running out, Jess knows if she doesn’t solve this mystery she’ll finally have something in common with Hugh Henry.

She’ll be dead too.

12-year-old Jude Ripon is from a family with a reputation for being prolific thieves who dabble in raw magic. Jude has never felt like she’s a true Ripon, so she sets out to steal some valuable magic to prove her place in the family and gain the respect of Grand leader, her grandfather. Of course, as things usually do, all kinds of chaos then ensues. Jude and her new friends, Finn and Eri, uncover an evil plot set in motion by Grandleader. Will they be able to stop him in time? Jude is lonely and doesn’t feel like she belongs in her own family. She’ll do anything for their approval. She does have a conscience and a good heart, unlike her family. She makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her friends and sister.

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