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Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a riveting contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.

Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn´t feel bad about it.

Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best-the language of violence.

While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can´t be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna´s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher´s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter. Not anyone.

As their senior year unfolds, Alex´s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.

2017 Tayshas List Selection YALSA Top 10 Best YA Fiction of 2017 School Libray Journal Best of 2016 Junior Library Guild Selection The Globe and Mail Best Books of 2016 Bustle´s Best Young Adult Books of 2016 Mashable´s 8 Best YA Books of 2016 Seventeen´s 10 Best YA Books of 2016 CCBC Choices 2017 2018-2019 Louisiana Readers´ Choice Award Nominee 2019 & 2020 Choose to Read Ohio Booklist

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★ "Each word has been specifically chosen, each character superbly and humanly sculpted, the plot line masterfully completed. To say more would be to dilute the experience. McGinnis plays with the readers and they are at her mercy." Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review)

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Mindy McGinnis is the author of The Female of the Species; Not a Drop to Drink and its companion, In a Handful of Dust; Given to the Sea; and the Edgar Award-winning novel A Madness So Discreet. A magna cum laude graduate of Otterbein University with a BA in English literature and religion, Mindy lives in Ohio. You can visit her online at www.mindymcginnis.com.

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