She's also filled with guilt for her broken relationship with her sister and now that relationship can never be fixed. So rather than allowing her sister's death to be brushed off, Lena is determined to find out what happened to her and who did it. The police are calling it a heroin overdose but Lena knows her sister would never tolerate needles, would never travel above 125th street, and, well, there are a lot of things Lena thinks would never happen. Now, Desiree is dead, her body found on a Bronx playground, needle marks on her body. He got Lena's mom pregnant and that's about the only part he has played in Lena's life. There are just too many bad choices that Desiree has made in the past and their wealthy, famous father hasn't helped their relationship at all. She also hasn't spoken to her sister in two years. Straight laced, nerdy, Lena Scott has nothing in common with her younger 25 year old sister, Desiree Pierce. So why is no one listening to her?ĭespite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s darkest secrets-or ending up dead herself And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.īut Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. A twisty, voice-driven thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Jessica Knoll, in which no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead in the Bronx-except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.
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