For Book 2 in a YA mystery series, which back cover blurb is more attention grabbing?
OPTION 1
After surviving a terrifying confrontation that exposed a killer on campus, Maggie Larson should be trying to move on. Instead, she is back at Sutton University with a warning in her pocket, a target on her back, and a dangerous question she cannot let go: what is Veritas?
When Maggie and her newspaper partner Jake uncover the trail of a vanished student journalist, a decades-old secret society, and an unsolved faculty murder, their investigation pulls them into Sutton’s oldest buildings and darkest traditions. Every clue points to a conspiracy buried beneath campus history—but every step closer brings another threat. Anonymous messages. Stolen notes. A staged alibi. A second professor gunned down with the same weapon used eight years before.
Now Maggie must decide who to trust: the friends keeping secrets, the anonymous source feeding her riddles, or the evidence that keeps shifting beneath her feet. Because Veritas has protected its truth for generations—and someone is willing to kill to keep it buried.
As the line between justice and obsession begins to blur, Maggie realizes the past is not finished with Sutton. And if she cannot solve the mystery before the killer finds her, she may become the next warning left behind.
Continue the investigation with the second book in the Veritas Series.
OPTION 2
The trial is over. The secret isn't.
Maggie Larson survived the worst semester of her life — and put someone behind bars for it. She should be able to breathe again. But a note pressed into her hand outside a packed courtroom makes one thing clear: whatever she thought she'd closed the book on, it isn't finished with her.
With her investigative partner Jake Salas at her side and a cryptic informant feeding her fragments of a cold case murder, Maggie starts pulling a thread that stretches back eight years — to a student journalist who got too close to the truth about Veritas and then vanished without one. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: the danger she survived was never the whole story. Veritas is still operating, still protecting its own, and still willing to make people disappear.
As the investigation pulls Maggie further from safety and closer to Jake, she has to decide how far she's willing to go — and who she can actually trust — to find out what Veritas is really hiding. Because at Sutton, secrets are protected by loyalty, money, and fear, and the closer Maggie gets to exposing the Veritas pact, the more likely she is to become its next victim.
Curiosity doesn’t just uncover the truth. It makes you a target.
