Nose Jobs, Hair Dye, and Other Ways to Fake Your Death

By: Natalie Tay

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Death changes a person... Especially when their death is faked.

When your father happens to be the next Presidential hopeful, flying under the radar is about as easy as scaling a twenty-story glass building in broad daylight. Even if I was mostly in the background, staying in Dad’s spotlight would make my ambition of becoming a spy difficult at best. And he didn’t want to be the one to take away my dreams.

The plan was to fake my death a month after he announced his candidacy, but everything changed when I didn't make it home for winter break.

They insisted it was a car crash, but that didn't explain the gunshot wounds in my chest. Or why Dad said it was best to let people think that I was dead.

Six weeks and eight surgeries later, I was back at school. New name, new face, and a couple hundred classmates still mourning my death. I thought it would be easy to adopt the new identity, especially since I’d spent the last three and a half years at a special high school run by the Department of Defense.

But no amount of training could have prepared me for this.

After all, I still had to figure out who killed me.

love it!

for virtual voice, it wasn't bad! there's a few times where the voice didn't quite capture the feel of the words but it wasn't detrimental to the story. I loved the story and the twist! It was captivating and enjoyable!