GIRLS WHO BURN

Jessica Goodman meets Jesse Q. Suntanto in this twisty enemies to lovers summer thriller, full of secrets, privilege, and murder.

The night her older sister Fiona's body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine, Addie told her that she didn't love her anymore. She actually said, "You're no better than Mom," but in their family that means the same thing. Love is staying, love isn't running away.

Addie should have apologized, gone looking for Fiona, but instead she hooked up with Seth Montgomery, the boy next door she's always loved to hate. And now Addie cannot help but think Fiona's death is all her fault. Well, her fault, and also whoever murdered Fiona.

The police had ruled Fiona's death an accident, but Addie knows the truth. Her ballet-prodigy sister didn't slip and fall, she was pushed. And the only possible culprit is Thatcher, Seth's cousin, and fellow member of the uber-wealthy and privileged Montgomery family. He always had a thing for her sister and a week before Fiona's death she saw him yelling at Fiona with rage in his eyes. The line between love and hate is thin (as Addie knows) and Addie's convinced Thatcher crossed it - until she meets up with Seth for the first time since Fiona's death, nearly a year later, and hears a scream in the woods. It's Thatcher - dead at the bottom of the ravine, just like Fiona.

There's a killer on the loose in Bier's End, and the only one Addie can trust is Seth, the boy she was hooking up with - also her alibi. But can she really trust him? After all, if there's anything Addie's learned it's that the more you love, the harder the fall.

Author MK Pagano writes stories about messy girls, mayhem, and murder. When she's not busy pondering the angst of fictional people, she can be found reading (from her own TBR and that of her children's), dreaming of restoring an old French chateau, and wandering the weirder parts of New Jersey, where she currently resides with her family.