The Friends She Keeps - Deceitful book 1

Some friendships change your life. Others can destroy it. Fifteen-year-old Janice Grimes is struggling with problems no teenager should have to carry alone. Money is tight, tensions at home are growing, and the responsibilities of helping care for her younger siblings leave her longing for freedom and someone who truly understands her. That someone appears to be Rhonda Billings. Confident, unpredictable, and always ready to defend her, Rhonda offers Janice the loyalty and attention she desperately craves. But beneath that friendship lies something far more dangerous. As Rhonda's influence grows, boundaries disappear, secrets multiply, and Janice is pulled into a world of manipulation, obsession, older relationships, and choices that could cost her everything. Then Janice is found unconscious and left fighting for her life. As detectives begin reconstructing the events that led to her hospitalization, they uncover disturbing evidence, hidden histories, and a trail leading directly toward Rhonda and Kareem Wilder. With investigators closing in, loyalties collapse, friends turn against one another, and the people responsible begin running. But running doesn't erase the truth. From a devastated family searching for answers to fugitives desperate to escape the consequences of their choices, The Friends She Keeps: Deceitful Friends - Book One is a character-driven psychological crime thriller about toxic friendship, betrayal, family, survival, justice, and the devastating consequences of trusting the wrong person. Janice thought Rhonda was the friend who understood her better than anyone. She may live long enough to discover just how wrong she was. The Friends She Keeps is Book One of the Deceitful Friends series by Anfredia King.