Mere weeks have passed since Kylie's entanglement with Ezra Darby. Struggling to recover, she throws herself into her work as a crime reporter for
The New York Star
. A news report tells a sad tale of a drastic increase in New York's suicide rate - something that Kylie finds curious.
When the lead detective in the case against Darby, Darren Michaels, is found dead by apparent suicide, everyone around him insists he would never have killed himself. But when Kylie looks further into Michaels' death, she finds not all is as it seems. Her investigation leads her down a dark path as she uncovers secrets of coercion, mysterious groups online, and blackmail.
Can Kylie uncover who's behind these strange suicides?