You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks

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This was an enjoyable book. It was a little slow at parts but it was an interesting story and a worthy read. The story follows Shay Miller, who witnessed a suicide at the beginning of the book. Amanda, a girl who jumped in front of a subway train, locked eyes with Shay moments before her death. This shook Shay up and made her look into who Amanda is. She attends the memorial service and reads up on news articles about her. In the meanwhile, Amanda's friends, sisters Jane and Cassandra, befriend Shay. She doesn't know that Jane and Cassandra befriended her with an agenda. Shay finds a perfect apartment she needs, a new job that's perfect for her, even her dating life is greatly improved, but Shay doesn't know all of these things are set up by the sisters. They also give her a head to toe makeover to make her feel more "confident" but Shay starts having doubts when she realizes they made her look exactly like Amanda. Shay starts figuring things out and believes the sisters are trying to pin a murder on her. We learn that Jane and Cassandra and their circle of friends have been luring vulnerable women with the guise of helping them but it's really for their own vigilante justice. For example, they befriended a girl named Daphne who told them she was raped. So they killed her rapist, James. Amanda who is a nice person, never expected the group to kill someone, and wants to save James when he was dying. After James died, Amanda wants to go to the police. The group decides they must kill her to keep her quiet. We learn that in the beginning of the book, when Amanda jumped in front of the train, it wasn't because she wanted to die, but because she knew Valerie (another person in the circle of friends) was there to kill her. Shay learns that Valerie is actually another sister of Jane and Cassandra's, and James is a step-brother, who tried to rape Valerie when they were in high school. The sisters have been wanting to kill him ever since. Shay starts working with the detective who has been following the sisters for a while. The end of the book is a showdown at the train station, where Valerie tries to kill Shay, and Shay, who is more fit and strong than Valerie, shoves Valerie in front of an oncoming train, kills her instantly. The detective arrests the rest of the sisters.

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