The Delinquent Hero - Paperback

by Khristina Chess (Author)

"Just eat."

Those were the last words eighteen-year-old Molly said to her older sister, Kat, before the "accident." Now, Kat is a skeletal figure on life support, and Molly is haunted by the weeks of warnings she chose to ignore. The fainting spells, the stumbles, the desperate calls for help-Molly dismissed them all as attention-seeking.

But as the doctors prepare to turn off the ventilator, Molly's guilt transforms into an obsession. She's convinced Kat's rental house is a crime scene. She's certain the landlord is hiding something, and that Kat's ex-boyfriend has blood on his hands. Because if someone else hurt Kat, then it isn't Molly's fault.

To find the truth, Molly must piece together a timeline that doesn't add up and confront the secrets Kat left behind. But the closer she gets to the "murderer," the more she realizes that the most dangerous person in Kat's life might have been the sister who was supposed to save her.

For fans of Wintergirls and Girl in Pieces-a raw, heart-shattering mystery about the cost of silence and the unbearable weight of "what if."