Kay Donovan was looking forward to her friends' annual tradition of jumping in the lake to swim after the Halloween dance. This was before her friend Brie lets out a blood curdling scream. Kay knows instantly that something is wrong. She rushes to the water's edge and sees it.
There is a body in the lake, and that body belongs to a fellow student at their boarding school, Bates Academy.
Kay and her friends are visibly upset about the discovery, but call their headmistress and the police. Not only do they promise to say that they were all with each other the whole night, but they also agree to say that they didn't know the victim, Jessica Lane.
Kay and her friends are visibly upset about the discovery, but call their headmistress and the police. Not only do they promise to say that they were all with each other the whole night, but they also agree to say that they didn't know the victim, Jessica Lane.
The following day Kay receives a email. The sender threatens to spill Kay's deep dark secrets if she doesn't do as the sender says. Kay has to go to a website and follow its instructions. The email is signed by Jessica Lane. It came from her email address.
Once the website is opened, Kay sees that is about revenge being a dish best served cold. Six menu items are listed. Kay clicks on the first and a recipe is revealed as well as a countdown timer. Kay learns an explosive secret about one of her best friends. She must get the secret out and her friend kicked out of Bates Academy.
Once the website is opened, Kay sees that is about revenge being a dish best served cold. Six menu items are listed. Kay clicks on the first and a recipe is revealed as well as a countdown timer. Kay learns an explosive secret about one of her best friends. She must get the secret out and her friend kicked out of Bates Academy.
There are five more recipes just like it.
Kay is torn. She doesn't want to hurt her friends, but she also cannot have her secret revealed. It is a secret so horrible that it will ruin her life. Can she figure out who is behind the Jessica Lane email and website? Will her friendships be destroyed? Will more students lose their lives?
This terrific psychological thriller keeps the reader guessing. Not only does the reader want to know who killed Jessica Lane, but the reader is dying to know the details behind the deaths of Kay's best friend and brother in the time before she transferred to the Bates Academy. Even though the book is filled with mean girls being mean girls, the reader hopes that some of them will grow and mature.
You won't be able to put down this juicy tale of revenge.
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