Their Vicious Games

A brutally honest and haunting cautionary taleexposing the lie that is meritocracy and the unrelenting toll that being a final girl takes. A bloody tale spun masterfullya dark delight. Faridah bk-ymd, New York Times bestselling author of Ace of Spades A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes arent just high, theyre deadly, in this spine-chilling thriller (Publishers Weekly). You must work twice as hard to get half as much. Adina Walker has known this the entire time shes been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academya school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. Its why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted from her top choice Ivy League college and any other. Her only chance to regain the future shes sacrificed everything for is the Finish, a high-stakes contest sponsored by Edgewaters founding family in which twelve young, ambitious women with exceptional promise are selected to compete in three mysterious events: the Ride, the Raid, and the Royale. The winner will be granted entry into the fold of the Remington family, whose wealth and power can open any door. But when she arrives at the Finish, Adina quickly gets the feeling that something isnt quite right with both the Remingtons and her fellow competitors, and soon it becomes clear that this larger-than-life prize can only come at an even greater cost. Because the Finishs stakes arent just make or breaktheyre life and death. Adina knows the deck is stacked against herit always has beenso maybe the only way to survive their vicious games is for her to change the rules.