Jex Malone

Stuck with her father for the summer, Jex Malone fears she might snap from boredom. Then she meets three girls, already best friends. Jex risks banishment to eternal geekdom by confiding her goal--to solve her dad's
unsolved cases, especially the disappearance of a young girl that so obsessed her dad it helped break up the Jex's parents. To her surprise, evenglam girl Deva is willing to swear Jex's crazy oath and set out on the trail to find out what happened to the lost child. What they learn is not only answers, but a truth that's beyond belief.

C.L. Gaber is a well-known entertainment journalist, syndicated worldwide through the New York Times Syndicate. She also interviews A-listers from Jennifer Lawrence to Robert Pattinson for the Chicago Sun-Times. A movie-loving kid in Chicago, she grew up to earn a degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State. Now she lives Nevada with her husband Ron, once her high school boyfriend; her stepdaughter, Sabrina; and their dogs, Colt and Georgie.

Veteran reporter V.C. Stanley covered breaking news for the Associated Press and was an investigative reporter for the Tampa Tribune, and is now a speechwriter at the University of South Florida. She grew up riding horses and hiking the woods of her native southern Oregon before earning a journalism degree from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State. She is married to Doug and is mom to Nicholas. The authors of Jex Malone met on their first day of college in a journalism class and became forever friends--a friendship that, just like the Drew-Ids, proves that the new friend who shows up out of nowhere might be the best present fate can ever hand you.