Jet

Jet is the narrator, attending the Halloween Fair in Woodstock, Vermont, wearing a zombie mask, dealing with family tension, and eventually gets attacked at home. Jet awakens from a coma, learns details of her injuries, discovers a bone fragment near a crucial artery, and receives a dire prognosis with a risky surgery option. Jet wakes in hospital facing a life‑or‑death surgery decision, exhibits anomic aphasia, and learns about severe brain injuries and polycystic kidney disease. Jet visits her own crime scene, observes blood spatter and forensic details, learns about the attacker and timing, and sees her dog Reggie is safe. Survives home attack, interrogates police, analyses Apple Watch data, deduces murderer, declares she has a week to live. Jet spends the chapter reviewing multiple security videos of her own murder, noting timestamps and details, while experiencing a headache and researching possible brain aneurysm symptoms. Refuses surgery, leaves home, packs belongings, plans to stay with Billy. Jet uses Google Street View to search River Street, receives a spare key from Billy, discovers a suspicious loan fraud letter, decides to go to the police with a lead, and leaves the house for Billy's apartment. Jet is interrogated about a mysterious loan letter, threatens LightFi, and suspects ex‑boyfriend JJ as the attacker. Jet continues her investigation, eating cold fries, leaving her truck on River Street, walking to the cemetery, crossing the Middle Covered Bridge, confronting Billy, discussing red‑wig evidence, and tending to a wound on her head. Jet notices her right pupil is dramatically dilated, mentions her own kidney problems, threatens to expose Owen's porn collection, and defiantly tears up a parking ticket. Jet interrogates Andrew at the bar, learns timeline, family motives, and new clues about the murder. Jet discovers the murder weapon and her iPhone hidden in the unfinished concrete foundations at Luke's construction site. Jet discovers family sale plans and gathers suspect information at the bar. Jet confronts Luke for an employee list, suspects Luke and Sophia of lying about alibis, and plans to investigate Henry and Andrew Smith Jet experiences sudden paralysis of her right arm, severe headache, and hands her car keys to Billy because she cannot drive. Jet learns she has a 23 mm leaking aneurysm with a sentinel bleed, giving her only a few days left, decides to delay surgery, and resolves to solve her own murder while dealing with family pressure. Analyzes Ring footage, discovers Sophia stole and returned her Lotrel pills, notes handwriting quirks, records timestamps of Sophia's visits. Jet discovers Sophia has been swapping her dad's Lotrel pills with salt, flushes the poisoned pills, restores correct medication, and decides to confront Sophia alone. Jet learns Sophia has been swapping her father's medication with salt, discovers her father's plan to sell Mason Construction to Nell, and experiences paralysis in her right arm. Jet discovers payroll and tax fraud at Mason Construction, learns Luke is hiding employees and committing invoice fraud. Jet survived the building fire, escaped via a broken window, sustained multiple burns and a paralyzed left arm, and was rescued by Billy. Jet coerces Henry to give her a gun, learns about Luke's off‑books payments and the $30k loan taken in Henry’s name. Jet witnesses the arson at Mason Construction, sustains a burn, lies about her alibi, and reflects on her limited time left. Jet watches the Zoom trustee meeting, uncovers her mom's secret vote, confronts a cat‑filter threat, and identifies Andrew Smith's former house and Nina's suicide. Jet retrieves Nina's MacBook and accesses her Facebook and Gmail accounts Jet walks with Billy, picks up a falling amber leaf, gives it to Billy as luck, reflects on wanting to walk without reason, and notes a throbbing bandage on her head. Jet discovers a cryptic note in her mother’s diary indicating Luke was already wet before Emily’s death, leading her to suspect Luke may have been in the pool earlier and revealing the exact May 31 schedule of that day. Jet is confronted by Sophia, arrested by Jack Finney for second-degree arson, shoves the chief, escapes and leads police on a frantic foot chase through Woodstock streets. Jet is interrogated, learns she has about thirty‑six hours left to live, is held in a cell, writes goodbye letters, makes a voicemail call to Billy, and is told she may be held up to forty‑eight hours before arraignment. Jet is released from jail, reunites with Billy, finds a gun in her glove compartment, calls Luke and learns he is at Mason Construction, and decides to confront him. Jet debates suspects, searches for duct tape, discovers Coleby tools, accuses Billy, and experiences a hallucinatory after‑life confrontation. Jet's murder is detailed, revealing her father as the killer and the weapon used.