People Like Us

<b>"Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt's <i>The Secret History</i> with a little bit of Riverdale mixed in. So yeah, it's epic."<b>--</b><i>HelloGiggles</i><b></b><br><b></b><br>"In <i>People Like Us</i>, Dana Mele delivers the Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars young adult novel you've been waiting for."--<i>Bustle</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Debut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end.