Sham

Can you love someone, understand them, without knowing basic information about them? Like maybe their real name? This is the question Emily Heath has just one day to answer. She needs to discover who, what and where, her boyfriend is. Before another girl goes missing. Before the police can arrest him. Before he simply disappears. Eighteen-year-old Emily recites quantum equations when things get tricky at home and is desperate to leave her dead-end town, known locally as "The Sham". She wants to leave with her boyfriend, Jack, but he''s very, very sick; his body is failing and his brain is shutting down. He''s also in hiding, under suspicion of murder. Six months'' ago, strange signs were painted across town in a dialect no one has spoken for decades and one of Emily''s classmates washed up in the local floods. Emily has never trusted her instincts and now they''re pulling her towards Jack, who the police think is a sham himself, someone else entirely. As the town wakes to discover new signs plastered across its walls, Emily must decide who and what she trusts, and fast: local vigilantes are hunting Jack; the floods, the police, and her parents are blocking her path; and the town doesn’t need another dead body.