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Gr 10 Up—This novel centers on the convergence of the lives of Sadie, a damaged girl who enjoys causing others pain, and Emerson, a boy who's trying desperately to hide the dysfunction inside his family and himself. The novel follows Sadie as she arrives back in California wine country after being expelled from a series of far-flung and expensive boarding schools. Emerson is stunned by her reappearance and u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Sadie Su returns to her family’s California vineyard estate and public high school after being kicked out of boarding school for a “prank” that nearly killed another student. Cruel and dangerously bored, she amuses herself by toying with childhood acquaintance Emerson Tate. Emerson is already stressed -- with a sickly younger brother, an overworked widowed mom, whispers about his family around town, his own shameful dark impulses -- and Sadie’s reappearance adds to the pressure. She gleefull...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seventeen-year-old Sadie toys with acquaintance Emerson, gleefully reminding him of sadistic childhood activities and threatening to reveal a more recen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More