A young adult novel about inner-city teens who live on a razors edge and understand that chosen family is just as important as blood.Michie and her best friend Trissa grew up like sisters in a ramshackle duplex owned by their single moms. But now that theyre sixteen, the differences in identity and experience have caused a rift. Michies an introvert obsessed with a book called A Girls Guide to Murder, and her mom has an organic weed and mushrooms grow-op in the basement. Shiny, extroverted Trissa, on the other hand, dances at the hottest nightclub in town, while her mother holds an ultra-responsible job at City Hall.One night, Michie wakes up one night to find Trissa missing, having left only a cryptic note. The cops write her off as a party girl whos probably already met a foul end, and the mothers fall apart from fear and grief, but Michie refuses to believe it.Enlisting help from her friend Anwar, who shes been in love with forever, Michie sets off to look for Trissa, knowing shes the only one who will. The search takes them into unfamiliar, dangerous territory: the back rooms of Trissas luxury nightclub, dark alleyways, the online sex industry, and rural cottage country.As she begins to unravel Trissas secrets against a backdrop of cold authority figures, shady characters, and a serial killer whos been active in the city, Michie knows shes plunging into dangerbut shes determined to find her chosen sister and to bring her home safely.This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
