![]() ![]() “Sutanto expertly manipulates time, moving between difficult childhoods to perplexing adult lives, dexterously revealing puzzle pieces that calculatingly don’t fit. When she discovers a post from Thalia on her website about attending a book convention in New York City in a week- “Can’t wait to see you there!”-Jane can’t wait either.She’ll go to New York City, too, credit card bill be damned. Thalia disappeared without a trace, and Jane has been unable to find her since.Until now.Because there she is, her name at the top of the New York Times bestseller list: A Most Pleasant Death by Thalia Ashcroft. The blood-soaked night that should have bound Thalia to Jane forever but instead made her lose her completely. It was the only good year of Jane’s life-cobblestones and books and damp English air, heady wine and sweet cider and Thalia, endless Thalia. ![]() Jane’s best and only friend nearly a decade ago during their Creative Writing days at Oxford. Jane is unhappy.A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house-a life-she’s never really wanted.There’s only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Some friends-and friendships-are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn’t know his real name either, and it’s not like they’re ever going to cross paths IRL.Until she transfers to an elite private school for her senior year and discovers that Sourdawg goes there, too.But who is he? How will he react when he finds out Kiki’s secret? And what happens when Kiki realizes she’s falling for her online BFF? Even her online best friend-a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg-doesn’t know her true identity. She can’t help but be totally herself… except when she’s online.Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. ![]() A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession, and Well, That Was Unexpected. ![]()
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