Secrets in the Shadows

     This book is about a boy named Roylin who meets a girl named Korie, horse is new to the school and he starts to build on the way she seems him, before other people talk to her about his past. Roylin has a bad reputation but, he really liked the girl and he didn't want it to interfere with her getting to know him. When he starts talking to her he finds out that her birthday is coming up soon. She takes him to see a necklace that she's had her eye on for a while, he uses the opportunity to try to buy it hot her because he that that he could win her heart. He goes home to count his money when he realizes that he has much less than anticipated.  He took very desperate measures and took money from his old friend, old in age and in years of friendship, while he was sleeping.  When Roylin returns,  he finds out that the shock from the betrayal had killled the old man overnight. The superintendent watched the theft take place and uses it the blackmail Roylin. Then, suddenly, Roylin finds out something that alters his guilty conscience.
     This book was short and sweet. It gave all the exciting twists and turns, just as if compared to a long fiction novel it has the exciting , but it was short and still a great read. These two authors, in the Buford series, really know how to give you the background of a person in order into tell a great story that takes up most of the pages. In the Bluford series all of the characters are students at a single high school so, throughput the books the characters intertwine and there might be a character that is perceived a certain way by other characters. You'll ask yourself why and you'll wonder but, you'll read another book and it'll explain their life, hardships, and view of life, and in those moments all of the lights go off in your brain.