Tess The Fixer

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In the novel, The Fixer a girl named Tess Kendrick is sent away to stay with her older sister, Ivy Kendrick in Washington DC. Ivy is known for being the capital’s best “fixer”. She helps important and famous people make the public forget about an event. Tess is forced to go to school at Hardwicke School, where she is following in her sister’s path, which is what she doesn’t want to happen. Tess makes new friends at the school, but her friends need her to solve a mystery, that is related to Ivy’s job. Tess becomes the school’s new “fixer”. Tess and her friends, Vivvie, Henry, and Asher have to solve an important death in the capitol without Tess knowing. But the mystery soon becomes dangerous as more and more secrets are revealed.

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