"[A] perfectly orchestrated girl-who-cried-wolf thriller."--The New
York Times Book Review
A dark, utterly compulsive novel about what happens when the warped
imagination of a teenage girl turns into reality...
When fifteen-year-old Yasmin--obese, obsessive and deemed a freak by her
peers--sees a sinister man watching Alice Taylor from the school fence,
she becomes convinced he's planning to take her. After all, who
wouldn't want the popular and perfect Alice?
Then Yasmin realizes if she can find out who he is before he acts,
she'll be the only one who can tell the police, save Alice and become
Alice's heroine. But as Yasmin discovers more about this man, her
affections begin to shift. Perhaps she was wrong about him. Perhaps she
doesn't need Alice after all...
And then Alice vanishes.