Il y a trois ans, la meilleure amie de Jill a été assassinée, mais son meurtrier n'est peut-être pas celui qui a été arrêté...
Tout semble parfait dans la vie de Jill, de son lycée privé huppé à ses résultats scolaires en passant par ses amis, les Joueurs, un club initiatique secret assurant à ses membres un avenir brillant.
Mais quand Jill se met à poser des questions sur la mort de Shaila, ses amis ne réagissent pas comme elle l'aurait attendu.
Avec l'aide de la soeur du meurtrier présumé, elle va découvrir des vérités qu'il aurait sans doute mieux valu laisser enfouies...
À la croisée de Gossip Girl et de Pretty Little Liars, une série en cours d'adaptation par HBO Max sous le nom The Players Table.
" Un roman éblouissant sur le pouvoir, les privilèges et la dangereuse quête de la perfection. " Jessica Knoll, autrice de American Girl " Sophistiqué et haletant... Un thriller tortueux. " Kirkus Reviews
Old money. New secrets.
A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body, from Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives you a lifetime of access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors and guaranteed safety and security as Legacy Club members always look out for their own. That is, after you make it through a rigorous week of events and the extravagant gala, the Legacy Ball.
So its not surprising when Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are nominated as Legacies; their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth--even if they''re all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens Tori Tasso? Shes a surprise nominee, someone no one saw coming. Toris never fit in this world of designer bags, penthouse apartments, and million-dollar donations. So what did she do to secure her place?
The night of the Legacy Ball is supposed to be the best night of these seniors lives, a night of haute couture, endless champagne, and plenty of hushed gossip.
Everyone expects a night of luxury and excess.
No one expects their secrets to come out.
Or for someone to die trying to keep them hidden.
Gossip Girl meets One of Us Is Lying with a dash of The Secret History in this slick, taut murder mystery set against the backdrop of an exclusive prep school on Long Island. Jill Newman''s best friend, the enigmatic Shaila Arnold, was killed by her boyfriend three years ago. After that dark night on the beach, Graham confessed, the case was closed, and Jill and her friends tried to move on. Now, it''s Jill''s senior year and she''s determined to make it her best yet. After all, she''s a senior and a Player--a member of Gold Coast Prep''s exclusive, not-so-secret secret society. Senior Players have the best parties, the admiration of the entire school, and the highest grades. This is going to be Jill''s year. She''s sure of it. But when she starts getting texts proclaiming Graham''s innocence, Jill''s dreams of the perfect senior year, in her perfect seaside town, with her perfect group of friends, starts to crumble. Suddenly, flashes of that night on the beach freshman year start coming back to her, along with memories she''s tried to suppress. More than anything, Jill wants to uncover the truth about what happened to Shaila, but she soon realizes that doing so means putting her friendships, and her future, in jeopardy.
B>From bestselling author Jessica Goodman comes a twisty new thriller about three best friends, one elite summer camp, and the dark secrets that lead to a body in the lake.br>;/b>br>br>Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels at home. As the daughter of the camp nurse and shop instructor, plus the honorary granddaughter of the camps owners, shes always had a special connection to Alpine Lake, even before she was old enough to attend. Now shes back as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and her camp friends to arrive. Because with the dark secret shes been keeping, shes more in need of the comfort of home than ever.br>;br>But with everything shes been holding back from her best friends, Ava and Imogen, things might not be as simple as shed hoped--and Goldies not the only person at camp who has been lying. When a local boy turns up dead in the lake, she knows that his death couldnt have been an accident. She also knows that Ava went down to the lake that night. But Avas her best friend, and despite everything that happened this past year, Goldie dives into the mystery surrounding the boy''s death.br>;br>But asking questions offers no answers, only danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.
B>b>From rising star Jessica Goodman, author of /b>b>They Wish They Were Us/b>b>, comes a second slick, fast-paced thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team and the new girl who threatens to take everything they''ve worked for away...until she disappears./b>/b>br>br>Ellie and Stella Steckler are only a year apart, but their different personalities make their relationship complicated. Stella is single-minded, driven, and intense. Cross-country running is her life and she won''t let anything get in the way of being the best. Her sister Ellie is a talented runner too, but she also lets herself have fun. She has friends. She goes to parties. She has a life outside of cross-country. br>br>The sisters do have one thing in common, though: the new girl, Mila Keene. Both Stella''s and Ellie''s lives are upended when Mila comes to town. Mila was the top runner on her team back home and Ellie and Stella see her as a threat. But Ellie can''t help but be drawn to her warm, charming personality. After her best friend moved away and her first boyfriend turned out to be a total jerk, Ellie''s been looking for a friend. To her surpise, Stella too can''t help but see Mila as funny, and strong--someone she can confide in, finally. As the two get closer, Stella becomes something she vowed she''d never be: distracted.br>br>With regionals approaching, the pressure is on. Each of their futures are on the line and friendship, or even something more, won''t get in their way. But then, suddenly, Mila goes out on a training run and never returns. No one knows what happened, but all eyes are on the Steckler sisters.
A full-length account of the award-winning authors' internet-recorded experiment with dating each other for 40 days collectsin addition to artwork, photos and textsa wealth of previously unpublished materials. Original. 50,000 first printing.
