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    "description": "<p>Josie presses her hands into the center of the drowned girl&rsquo;s chest and pumps, counting off compressions. She takes in the girl&rsquo;s beautiful face, her brown eyes glassy. The memory of a champion swimmer on the podium with her teammates&mdash;a red swim cap on, her head thrown back in laughter&mdash;a stark contrast to the cold, still body before her. Breathe. Just breathe... The body of a young girl lying face down in a swimming pool&mdash;white tennis shoes still on her feet, chestnut hair fanned out like a halo&mdash;is the last thing Detective Josie Quinn expects to find on an early morning visit to see her brother before class at Denton University. But when she recognizes the girl&rsquo;s face as she drags her limp body from the water, there&rsquo;s only one question racing through Josie&rsquo;s mind: how does a champion swimmer accidentally drown? Nysa Somers&rsquo; family is distraught. She was a model student, beloved daughter and everybody&rsquo;s friend. There&rsquo;s no way she would do anything reckless enough to put her scholarship at risk, let alone her life. It&rsquo;s up to Josie and her team to piece together what happened in the hours leading up to Nysa&rsquo;s death, and that begins with finding her missing backpack. But the bag, discarded in the woods on the nearby campus, contains nothing more than empty food wrappers, Nysa&rsquo;s phone and a cryptic calendar entry telling her to be a mermaid. The next day, a terrible housefire envelops the nearby home of a retired fireman, nearly killing his two granddaughters. The last words the little girls heard him mutter before he set the blaze were, be a match. As the body count rises, it&rsquo;s only Josie who can see the deadly pattern forming. Can she convince her team that the wrapper found in Nysa&rsquo;s bag that everyone overlooked is the crucial link they&rsquo;re missing? Not while her partner, Noah, is avoiding her calls and acting so coldly towards her. Josie knows she must go it alone if she&rsquo;s going to stop this silent and calculated serial killer before any more precious lives are taken. But with the killer finally in her sights, Josie takes a deadly risk and finds herself hanging onto life by her fingernails. Can she trust her team to save her, and before it&rsquo;s too late?</p>",
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