Seven starred reviews!
"A riveting, meticulously plotted mystery with plenty of drama."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A teen girl's summer with her famous mother turns sinister in this
gripping thriller inspired by a real-life Hollywood murder from Printz
Honor-winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb
Caletti--perfect for fans of Courtney Summers's Sadie.
Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before
she even gets on the plane. How could she not? Her mother is Lila
Shore--the Lila Shore--a film star who prizes her beauty and male
attention above all else...certainly above her daughter.
But Sydney's worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved
with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake
loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her
whenever he's around. And he's not the only one. Sydney is starting to
attract attention--good and bad--wherever she goes: from sweet, handsome
Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even
from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to
feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter.
But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets
killed--it only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the
night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the
beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties
are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth:
beautiful objects can break.
