In this âgripping psychological thrillerâ (New York Post), two best friends at an exclusive Manhattan girlsâ school make a pact: they will lose their virginity before graduation.
Carole is a shy, overweight scholarship student who finds herself under the spell of the charismatic, pedigreed Naomiâitâs an unlikely friendship that will set in motion a series of events with dire and far-reaching consequences.
Enter Eddie, a slick Upper East Side prep school dropout, expelled from a half-dozen private schools on the East Coast. Eddie is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplish their goal. But something about him is not quite rightâhis overly familiar way with Naomi, his hair-trigger temper, the stories that just don't add upâand on one bitterly cold holiday weekend in an isolated cabin deep in the Vermont woods, a horrifying twist develops in the girlsâ plan.
#1 bestselling author Wally Lamb says, âPam Lewis is a sly and sure-footed storyteller whose literary tale of treachery, deception, and truth sits comfortably alongside Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley."