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

Alex Craft has learned how to kill somebody. And she doesn’t feel bad about any of it.

3 years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered as well as 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 not be trusted among other folks..Read More on the subject of The Female from the Varieties Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but nonetheless feels guilty within the role he played the night time Anna’s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher’s child having 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, establishing these three teens on the collision course that will change their lives forever.

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