Her name is Cassidy Goode, she's twenty-five and has been in prison twice when she buries her brother one morning in Oceanside, California. She's heartbroken because the verdict on his death was suicide and she just doesn't understand it. Brock, her late brother, was the only one of her family that seemed to have a future at all. The trouble that will unravel the knotted cords of her life begins when she goes to Brock's house to get pictures of him for her mother. Her ex-boyfriend shows up with another man and it becomes obvious that they're going to kill her. She manages to hide and then witnesses the ex's death at the hands of the mysterious man who accompanied him. The only person she can trust to help her survive another attempt on her life is her grandfather, Professor Jason Bell. Together, they will uncover why her own past was so unendurably hard. The answers will push Cassidy's life in a new direction, one that will make everyone proud of her and the way she handles it. Read The Goode Girl to find out what secrets are buried in her past, who tried to bury them and why.