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Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation.But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make... not something that happened.

Can the right kind of boy get away with killing the wrong kind of girl?Fin and Betty’s close friendship survived Fin’s ninth-grade move from their coastal Maine town to Manhattan. Calls, letters, and summer visits continued to bind them together, and in the fall of their senior year, they both applied to NYU, planning to reunite for good as roommates. Then Betty disappears. Her ex-boyfriend Calder admits to drowning her, but his confession is thrown out, and soon the entire town believes he was coerced and Betty has simply run away. Fin knows the truth, and she returns to Williston for one final summer, determined to get justice for her friend, even if it means putting her loved ones—and herself—at risk. But Williston is a town full of secrets, where a delicate framework holds everything together, and Fin is not the only one with an agenda. How much is she willing to damage to get her revenge and learn the truth about Betty’s disappearance, which is more complicated than she ever imagined—and infinitely more devastating?

Four high-school friends--Meredith, Brandon, Greg, and Stephen--discover the fragile boundaries between friendship and betrayal as they are torn apart by passion, envy, dark secrets, and two violent deaths, as the casual cruelties of adolescence are transformed into murder. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls comes a new twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery—until she decides to return to her mother’s hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself.Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for.Margot’s mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what’s still there?The only thing Margot knows for sure is there’s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she’s there, she might never escape.

If the eeriness of uncertainty mingled with the visceral fear of contagion captures your imagination, "At the End of Everything" by Marieke Nijkamp will definitely intrigue you. The book's portrayal of psychological tension in the face of an unrelenting threat has an intensity that could resonate with those who are captivated by survival narratives and human resilience. With the palpable dread of the plague as a backdrop, it promises a reading experience rich in suspense and emotional depth.

If you've ever found traditional fairy tales a tad too tame, "The Grimrose Girls" could be just the twist you're craving. Dive into a familiar yet chilling world of enchantment where friendship and mystery converge. Each page peels back layers of dark school secrets and cursed fates, ensuring you're not just a reader but a sleuth piecing together a puzzle that blurs the line between fable and reality. Perfect for those who love a grim twist to their happily ever afters.