Cold Girls

Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli survived the car crash that killed her best friend Liv eight months ago, and she has been surviving on the cold, impenetrable persona Liv once taught her to perform. She does not want to die so much as she wants to disappear from her own life. Her mother does not believe the Xanax incident was an accident, her therapist keeps pressing, and an accidental reunion with Liv's grieving parents forces a choice: keep the secrets she and Liv shared locked away, or finally let herself break open. Rae alternates before-and-after chapters so the friendship and its absence land at full weight.