Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make.not something that happened.ĭebut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. 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. She prefers tea to coffee, snow to sand, and stars to sunshine, and she lives in the Catskills with her husband and toddler. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is a former actor, lawyer, musician, and briefly, associate producer. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. Dana Mele is a Pushcart-nominated writer and a work at home mother. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. 'In People Like Us, Dana Mele delivers the Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars young adult novel you've been waiting for.'- Bustle Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make.not something that happened.ĭebut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end.'Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with a little bit of Riverdale mixed in.

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. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their exclusive private school with effortless popularity and wit. 'Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with a little bit of Riverdale mixed in.

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