Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their schoolтАЩs ultimate power coupleтАФbut one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize.
But Delilah doesnтАЩt know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anythingтАФabsolutely anythingтАФto unseat Delilah for the scholarship. After all, it would lock in MariaтАЩs attendance at StanfordтАФand assure her and Lily four more years in a shared dorm room.
Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. But when feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to blur the distinction between whatтАЩs real and whatтАЩs imagined, the girls must attempt to put a stop to the chilling series of events theyтАЩve accidentally set in motion.
Robin Talley is a queer author who grew up in southwest Virginia and now lives in Washington, DC, with her wife and their kids. She is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels for teen readers: Music from Another World, Pulp, Our Own Private Universe, As I Descended, The Love Curse of Melody McIntyre, What We Left Behind, and Lies We Tell Ourselves. You can find her on the web at www.robintalley.com.