‘Mean Girls matches Donna Tartt’s THE TRICK History with a small amount of Riverdale combined in. So yeah, it’s epic.’–HelloGiggles

‘In People Like Us, Dana Mele delivers the Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars young mature book you’ve been looking forward to.’–Bustle

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her wardrobe, but the past is former, and she’s reinvented herself entirely. Now she’s a celebrity soccer player whose band of beautiful friends work their private college with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. However when a girl’s body is situated in the lake, Kay’s cautiously constructed life begins to topple. The inactive girl has still left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of the murder analysis. But if Kay’s finally backed into a part, she’ll do what must be done to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make…not something that happened.

Debut author Dana Mele has written a tight, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end.