Stay Dead

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  • About the book
  • Sometimes, the only way to live is to make sure the world thinks you’re dead . . 







In the aftermath of a car accident that claimed the life of her senator father, sixteen-year-old Milan finds herself adrift, expelled from her third boarding school. Milan’s mother, who has assumed the senate seat, diverts her private plane to pick up her daughter. But on their way home, a bomb rips off a wing and the plane crashes in the mountains. In her final moments, Milan’s mother entrusts her with a key. She reveals it will unlock the evidence that so many people have already died for—including Milan’s father. The only way Milan can survive, her mom tells her, is to let everyone believe she died with the other passengers.

​Milan is forced to navigate a perilous descent in freezing conditions while outwitting everything from a drone to wild animals. With relentless assassins on her trail, she must untangle the web of deceit and save herself and countless others. Will she piece together the truth in time?

​Praise 
​"A taut, tense, spectacularly cinematic novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seat. Stay Dead is April Henry at the top of her game."
—Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and The Agathas series
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"April Henry has done it again – with her gutsy heroine, Milan, and amazingly realistic plane crash detail, we’re dragged into a tension-filled story that refuses to let go. Pacy survival tale, and eco-thriller, and murder mystery all rolled into one, Stay Dead will knock your socks off!"
—Ellie Marney, New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep and The Killing Code

"This brilliant survival thriller has twists and turns that kept me breathless, a heroine with true grit, and a ripped-from-the-headlines message that no one should ignore."
—Margot Harrison, author of Only She Came Back and We Made It All Up

"If ever a book should be called a page-turner, it is this one. Stay Dead is a wonderfully compulsive thriller with a strong heroine who has shades of a young Sydney Bristow. April Henry’s latest novel grabbed me from its explosive opening, and its short, sharp chapters, and layered mystery, meant I couldn’t put it down. I loved it!"
--Vincent Ralph, New York Times bestselling author of Secrets Never Die and Lock the Doors