And she played them all.
Seventeen-year-old Carra Nichols transfers to the prestigious Ash Valley Academy in pursuit of her dream of gaining admission to Princeton, but her education comes at a price higher than the tuition. When she meets her wealthy and popular dorm neighbor Gabby, a manipulative thrill-seeker who hosts slumber parties featuring illicit and sometimes dangerous party games, she becomes obsessed with maintaining their new friendship.
Having been shunned by a popular friend in the past, Carra fears losing her place at Gabby’s side, and in order to please her, complies with her every whim. As the nights grow darker and the games more intense, she becomes someone she doesn’t recognize, going down a path of self-destruction that will keep her place but could cost her the Princeton admission.
But Carra isn’t the only one reinventing herself. Gabby isn’t who she pretends to be, and her carefully orchestrated world is part of a deadly agenda that ends in a party game that will cost someone their life.
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Eighteen-year-old Carmody Foster and her classmates just became Senior Assassins armed with water guns. As part of a tradition, they’ve joined the game, the last hurrah before graduation. The premise is simple: Within the established rules set up by an anonymous council known as The Syndicate, eliminate your assigned targets. But The Syndicate isn’t playing by the rules, isn’t playing a game—they’re playing for real. When someone gets eliminated, they face real-world repercussions because The Syndicate publicizes one of their secrets. Failure to eliminate their targets by graduation will also result in exposed secrets. When the players attempt to quit, The Syndicate sends a message: keep playing or risk physical injury from them. Terrified of having her darkest truths revealed and her classmates never viewing her the same again, Carmody fights to stay alive in the game while she and her friends try to unmask and stop The Syndicate before they hurt anyone else.
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Memory” will melt your heart
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anthology contain both witches and
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The humorous short story “Witchflix and Hex” is featured in this witchy anthology from Dragon Soul Press.
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The flash fiction “Threads
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story, will be featured in The Cabochon
Review’s upcoming Firelight and Fae issue.
featured in this holiday romance anthology from KissMet Quarterly.
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anthology from Dragon Soul Press.
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summer romance anthology from KissMetQuarterly.
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a Prom-themed series of 5 Haiku,
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“Forecast: You”
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anthology from MicroMance
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will be featured in this monster-hunter
anthology coming this summer from
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of my sister, who was murdered, is coming this fall in this very special death-themed anthology.
in this charity horror collection from Dragon Soul Press.
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summer camp-themed edition of
Drabble the Dark from Writing Against
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in this very special and emotional charity anthology to raise funds for a child whose mother lost her life to domestic violence. Coming soon from Wild Ink Publishing.
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