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408 p Summary: Valerie Leftman's world came crashing down the morning her boyfriend Nick open fires on students and teachers at their high school, killing six and wounding many, before shooting Valerie and killing himself. Val wakes up in the hospital to discover that Nick is dead and she has become the scapegoat. Months later, Valerie returns to school, where her old friends ostracize her and practically no one trusts her. But it's better than being at home with her mother who hovers over her, scared that she's suicidal, or her silent father who believes that Val is a monster. But the one thing that Val has the hardest time getting over is what will haunt her the most - the fact that she helped create the Hate List of people that Nick chose his targets from