<p>When seventeen-year-old Jill Hanson and two of her friends witness a fatal pedestrian accident, Jill sets out to prove that the victim was predestined to suffer that fate.</p><p>Her belief is based on her classroom reading of Thorton Wilder&#39;s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, <em>The Bridge of San Luis Rey.</em> Several weeks later, she has another opportunity to investigate the same theory. A well-liked teacher in her high school is brutally murdered. As this story unfolds, she becomes acquainted with a small-town newspaper reporter, Josh Solomon, who is investigating why everyone in authority, including his own editor/publisher, appears to want any interest in the murder of Teresa Owens to simply go away.</p><p>Although approaching the subject from widely disparate perspectives, both want similar results. In Josh&#39;s case, it is justice for a murder victim while Jill is searching for an answer to the deep philosophical question raised in Wilder&#39;s book. Do we live by accident and die by accident, or do we live by plan and die by plan?</p><p>Why are so many people set on making Teresa disappear?</p>