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At first glance, the sleepy suburb of Jonesville, Massachusetts doesn't seem to have much going on. The teens at Jonesville High are itching for more, ready to escape the confines of suburbia and the cliche of classroom cliques ...but there's more to the story behind closed doors. Town darling and star athlete Tarkin Shaw reveals himself to be a predator who has used his privilege to prey upon girls for years , with no consequences. After a shocking assault, a group of shaken but stubborn friends are ready for revenge-but things don't quite go as planned . Instead, they're forced to step up and confront the injustice of a world that paints girls as victims who get what they deserve.

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A gritty read for a woke generation. -KIRKUS McLaughlin has crafted a compelling novel that is somehow both timely and timeless: a perfect storm of topical issues affecting our society-and especially connected teens-today, but also an enduring lesson in empathy which reminds us that the truth behind the clickbait headlines often is hidden. - E.C. MYERS, author of the Andre Norton Award-winning Fair Coin, Quantum Coin, The Silence of Six, and more A relentless and fierce thriller crossed with an incisive story of gender, class and race. It grabs and grabs and never lets go. - CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother and Radicalized

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LAUREN MCLAUGHLIN is the author of five novels, Cycler, (Re)Cycler, Scored, The Free, and Send Pics. She has alsowritten the children's picture books Wonderful You and Mitzi Tulane, Preschool Detective. Prior to her fiction career, she spent ten years as a screenwriter and movie producer. Her screenplay credits include Prisoner of Love, starring Naomi Campbell, Specimen, starring Mark Paul Gosselaar, and Hypercube. She also produced American Psycho, Buffalo 66, and several other feature films.

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