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Thirty years ago in a mass communications class at Arizona State University, Vickie

Chachere and Cindy Pearlman sat down next to each other and have been best friends

ever since.

The authors – Cindy (C.L. – left), a well-known entertainment industry journalist and

Vickie (V.C. – right), a veteran newsperson – share a fascination with the drama that

is real life, as well as the unique perspective that strong women and girls bring to the

world.

After all those years of almost daily calls, incalculable shopping trips, husbands, kids,

and more shoes than they will ever admit to owning, they now hope to revive the girl

detective series. The duo has created a work that is a tribute to the life lesson they

learned so well: The stranger sitting next to you might just be one of the greatest

treasures fate will ever hand you. Oh, and never – ever – underestimate a nosy girl.

Who Is Jex?

She’s a 16-year-old, New Jersey native forced to spend summers with the homicide

detective father she barely knows. A self-absorbed lawman who works the Vegas strip,

John Malone knows how to bust criminals, but he’s in “officer needs assistance” mode

when it comes to having a real relationship with his daughter.

Now that Jex is older, he’s finally enforcing a court order that mandates that his

daughter spend the all of her summers with him until she is of age. For Jex, it’s like being

sent to a lockup.

Anticipating this will be the worst summer of her entire life, she arrives in scorching hot

Nevada and meets three equally bored-to-death 16-year-old girls in the neighborhood.

Looking for something to amuse themselves, they dig into Det. Malone’s cold case

files…and hello, vanished girl who lived around the corner once upon a time ago.

It was 13years ago when a teenager named Patty, a girl with dark secrets, disappeared

into thin air on a hot summer night. Jex and her friends decide to pursue the case

despite a trail of evidence that puts them at risk of becoming victims themselves.

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