Chastity and her mother have been on the run since Chass was a baby, assuming new identities in every town.She doesn't know why they are running, who her father is, or even her real name.But she does know her mother dislikes anything that has to do with music.They move to a small town called High Hopes,it is their they start making a new life trying to keep away from the people that surround them.Chastity starts high school like any other new student in town.Their she makes a friend named Ben,Ben as Chastity describes him is the nerdy looking kind of guy with a great big heart.
On the night of Chass's sixteenth birthday she recives a gift from her friend Ben.This gift turns out to be an electric guitar,Chass mother is very disgusted by it as she dislikes the fact of music excistense,they get in a huge argument Chastity's mother decides to walk out of the little birthday celebration,takes of leaving without saying where she's headed to.Days go by and still Chastity's mother has not come back.Ben's family decide to report Chastity's mother disappearance.Day's later police find her abandoned car, blood matching her DNA, and a purse containing six ID cards. Chass doesn't believe her mother is dead, only that she had to run again just like they always do.Since Chastity is a minor and is not living under anyone's supervision,the police notify her she will be put in foster care if her mother isn't back in six days.
Ben's family decide to take care of Chastity for a short time period.She still then worrie's about been put in foster care and she herself decide's to look for her mom. Ben volunteer's on helping Chastity on finding clue's or evidence of her mother's disaperance.They decide to go to the abandoned house where the police said they had found blood containig her mother's DNA.It is their they find lot's of evidence,but some of the things they happen to find do not lead to her mothers disaperance, it seem's to lead to someone's murder.What they find is a skull of a human,they do not know whether it's a male or a female's skull.Chastity then tell's Ben they cannot say anything about this and decide to keep it to them self's.
Ben's dad always seemed to have some sort of secret about the abandoned house that he never told anyone about.Chastity would alway's be curious about it but she never asked him.Until one day the curiosity stop's so she decides to ask.He then tell's her a long story,when he was a teenager he would live their with his father,when he was in high school this young girl dissapeared from town.The name of this girl was Nancy Rydel and he knew what had happened to her.He then tell's her,his father would always like to be with young girl's ever since his mother passed away since Nancy was easy to be with, he decided to be with her and he brought her to the house.
He then was with his friend's,they were drunk and decided to join his father's pleasant time with Nancy.Soon they got in this huge argument,he gets hit in the head and that was all he remebers from that night.He knew Nancy was dead because his friend's told him what had happened.Ben's father also said he moved out of the house and out of town for several years due to Nancys murder.Chastity then decide's to question no more.Day's went by and still no new's about Chastity's mother, she then remebered her mom once told her if she ever went missing she would put a classified add in the newspaper with the descrption of,"Room for rent,children yes,pets yes call Mrs.Church on Wednesdays anytime before 6".
It would be a secret description only Chastity's mother and her knew about.While she is in the look out for her mother she happen's to be chased by several men who tried killing her,she is terrified of these people chasing her but that didn't stop her from finding her mother.Chastity would always look at the newspaper everyday hoping her mother would post something on the classified ad,but even though she never found anything she wouldn't give up.The last day before taken custody of foster care she check's the newspaper,she their finds her mother had posted a classified ad.She read's carefully word by word of what the description said.According to the description she had to check her mailbox,and what she found inside she had to take it to the bank were it would open a deposit box.
Chastity decides to check the mailbox,she find's a key her mother had left just like the newspaper article described.Soon she goes to the bank and ask's to open the deposit box with the key.The deposit box had a shoe box sealed with newspaper and tape.Inside that shoe box she finds an old tape,she decide's to play the old tape at a music record production.On the tape it seemed to be recording how someone was murdered.What the tape was playing was said a man named Kyle Van Epps confessed to Chastity's mother,that he killed some girl he used to go out with and that he and 2 of his best friends were there on the crime scene.
It then clicked to Chastity the people that had been folowing her and tried to kill her worked for this man's company.She also then knew the murder described in this tape,was the same one as the one Ben's father was involved in and Ben's father was not the killer.It is their Chastity panics and does not know what to do.Chastity recives a text message her mom sent her saying that she was okay and that she would meet her at midnight on a bar.When she got there,her mom was there with Van Epps and he told her to give him the tape or her mom will die.Chastity hand's him the tape,but he runs off with both her mother and the tape of the murder.
At the end,her mother is rescued by the police and turn's out to be ok,Van Epps is arrested and goes to jail.Chastity question's her mother about the doubt who her father was.Chastity's mother then tells her the story behind everything.Of why they would always be on the run and who her father was.Her father turn's out to be the music producer who recorded the tape of the murder but he got killed by Van Epps,Van Epps always knew Chastity's mother had the tape,that's why they were always on the run.Reasons why their identities would always be changed was because Van Epps had hired people to stalk them everywhere they went and thats why she also disliked music alot because it brought memories of Chasttity's father.It is their they question no more,they are happy to be reunited again and the horrible nightmare they had been living for several yeard had finally come to an end,and thats how this mystery story end's.
