“Sheriff Nillson made my friend Maureen do awful things before she died,” I blurted out. I knitted together courage, preparing to do the hardest thing I’d ever done, even harder than biking out to that cabin. I was going to tell on my dad. Agent Ryan tipped his head, glanced over his shoulder, and then stepped all the way into the room, quietly but firmly closing the door behind him. “What did Sheriff Nillson make her do?” Even after everything I’d realized, I almost couldn’t go through with it. We kept our secrets in Pantown. But you wouldn’t believe what happened next. Maureen and Brenda
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