Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason
and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the
answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more
questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes
her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the
White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have
the answers she's looking for. Things are looking up... until Sawyer and the
White Gloves make a disturbing discover near the family's summer home--and
uncover a twisted secret, decades in the making.
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged
grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure
contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined
she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her
grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the
biggest mystery of her life-her father's identity-she signs on the dotted line
and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a
whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn't expect to find is
friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous,
dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn't
the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are
people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and
no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted
relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's
search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who
mostly goes by Jen) is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed
young adult novels. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and
cognitive science, including graduate degrees from Cambridge University, where
she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Yale University, where she received her Ph.D.
in 2012. Jen wrote her first published novel when she was nineteen-years-old
and sold her first five books while still in college. In additional to writing
YA novels, Jen has also written original pilot scripts for television networks
like USA and MTV, and she is one of the world's leading experts on the
psychology of fandom and the cognitive science of fiction and the imagination
more broadly. Jen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma,
where she holds a dual appointment in Psychology and Professional Writing.
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