With Malice by Eileen Cook

After waking in a hospital with no memory of the past six weeks, a college-bound teen learns her best friend died in a car crash during their trip to Italy—and that she’s the prime suspect. As she undergoes rehab and prepares for legal scrutiny, competing narratives from police interviews, news reports, and social media paint a damning portrait she can’t confirm or refute. With her family and a savvy lawyer at her side, she struggles to reconstruct the truth about a fraught friendship, a whirlwind romance, and a night that went terribly wrong. The story probes unreliable memory, privilege, and media frenzy, leaving culpability chillingly ambiguous.

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