The Little Things That Kill

<h2>Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2025</h2><h2>★★★★★ <em>YES must read!</em></h2><h3>She thought dying would be the end. Turns out it's just the beginning.</h3><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sixteen-year-old Nicole Benson wakes up on a floating platform surrounded by dead kids... only she doesn't remember dying.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Everyone insists she killed herself but Nicole knows that's not true.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now trapped in Substation Fifteen-the special afterlife realm for teens who ended their own lives-she's got just thirty days to uncover the facts and piece together what happened. If she fails her next stop could really be </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the end</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But the truth is a tangled mess of secrets lies and betrayals. If Nicole's not strong enough the facts she finds might be harder to accept than death itself.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For fans of</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Before I Fall We Were Liars </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> A Good Girl's Guide to Murder</em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em> </em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>comes a haunting and heartfelt YA paranormal mystery about friendship forgiveness and the destructive lies we tell ourselves-even after death.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><h2>SYNOPSIS:</h2><h3>True friendship is put to the test when Nicole's untimely death leads to more questions than answers.</h3><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sixteen-year-old Nicole already had enough on her plate between distancing herself from her embarrassingly witchy bestie Isabel and competing with her don't-mess-with-me romantic rival Cassie who happens to be dating Nicole's crush.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now Nicole is dead.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This comes as a shock when she wakes up and finds herself on Substation Fifteen an afterlife realm. They say it was suicide. Nicole has zero memory of dying but she's convinced she didn't take her own life and doesn't belong there.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her only path to uncovering the truth is a fact-finding trip through a minefield of secrets and lies beginning at her own funeral. But how can she communicate from beyond the grave with the two girls who know much more about Nicole's Last Day than they're willing to admit? Nicole better learn quickly because she has just thirty days to learn what really happened otherwise she won't be moving on to her next destination.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ultimately the facts Nicole finds may be harder to piece together and accept than death itself.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A story of family friendship loss and redemption </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Little Things That Kill </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>exposes the impact of the small choices we make every day in our lives (and afterlives).</span></p>