Jealousy, rivalry, and dark secrets threaten to tear the girls apart in this sizzling follow-up to Capital Girls Secrets and Lies by Ella Monroe
It's the start of senior year, and Excelsior Prep is on Code 3 lockdown. Secret Service agents swarm the halls searching for the First Son's girlfriend, Jackie Whitman. Outside a SWAT team hunts for the man who's been threatening the First Family for weeks. Only this time he's singled out Jackie, leaving a menacing message on the school's voicemail. Jackie's safe for now, but for the Capital Girls--three privileged kids who live in a political fishbowl in the nation's capital--every day is filled with tension and thrills. Though, even for them, a raid on the school by AK-47-toting marksmen is a standout.
And a stalker isn't Jackie's only problem. Still shattered by the shocking news that Andrew cheated on her with Taylor the night Taylor died, Jackie's whole world has fallen apart. Not only did the love of her life betray her, so did her best friend and idol. What made Taylor do it? Who was she really? On top of it all, Whiteny Remick is plotting to take Taylor's place, and Jackie will do anything to stop her.
"Great characters, full of rivalry, jealousy and secrets, make this a novel not to miss." - RT Book Reviews
Show moreJealousy, rivalry, and dark secrets threaten to tear the girls apart in this sizzling follow-up to Capital Girls Secrets and Lies by Ella Monroe
It's the start of senior year, and Excelsior Prep is on Code 3 lockdown. Secret Service agents swarm the halls searching for the First Son's girlfriend, Jackie Whitman. Outside a SWAT team hunts for the man who's been threatening the First Family for weeks. Only this time he's singled out Jackie, leaving a menacing message on the school's voicemail. Jackie's safe for now, but for the Capital Girls--three privileged kids who live in a political fishbowl in the nation's capital--every day is filled with tension and thrills. Though, even for them, a raid on the school by AK-47-toting marksmen is a standout.
And a stalker isn't Jackie's only problem. Still shattered by the shocking news that Andrew cheated on her with Taylor the night Taylor died, Jackie's whole world has fallen apart. Not only did the love of her life betray her, so did her best friend and idol. What made Taylor do it? Who was she really? On top of it all, Whiteny Remick is plotting to take Taylor's place, and Jackie will do anything to stop her.
"Great characters, full of rivalry, jealousy and secrets, make this a novel not to miss." - RT Book Reviews
Show moreELLA MONROE is the pseudonym for the Washington, D.C., based, writing duo Marilyn Rauber and Amy Reingold. Rauber is a former reporter who covered national politics--and all its scandals--for the New York Post. The Australian-born writer lives in the D.C. area with her husband and, on occasion, their two college-aged children. Reingold is a writer, a textile artist, and a classically-trained Cordon Bleu chef. Raised in small-town Illinois, she has lived in London and Hong Kong. But her favorite by far is the nation's capital, where she and her husband have raised two daughters and assorted pets.
Gr 9 Up-Jackie Whitman has it all-she's the girlfriend of the President's son, daughter of the President's main advisor, member of the hottest clique at school, and has money to spend any way she wants. In this installment, Laura Beth, Lettie, and Jackie are still dealing with the aftermath of their friend Taylor's death, the possible cover-up, and the rift between Jackie and her boyfriend, Andrew. New "frenemy" Whitney is still worming her way into their group, and Jackie is being blackmailed for her dalliance with a congressional aide and dealing with a stalker. Lettie is worried about being deported to Paraguay. While the series has a story arc, the soap-operalike plot is reminiscent of series such as Zoey Dean's "A-List" and Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girls" (both Little, Brown)-and is about as well written. With lots of name-dropping of designer clothes and accessories and "almost" sex, the girls plod through their lives, complaining about their boyfriends, their mothers, and the other girls at school while numbing their misery with lots of shopping and drinking. Lettie, a scholarship student, is the most realistic (although not necessarily believable) of the characters, the daughter of immigrants from Paraguay who work at their embassy and who has been "adopted" by the Capital Girls. Despite flaws and the fact that nothing is ever really resolved, this is the type of fluff that does appeal to many teen girls, and it does have a redeeming quality in that many of the issues touched upon are realistic and important-immigration law, a jobs' bill, services for returning veterans, and the feuds and underhanded politics between the Democrats and Republicans.-Janet Hilbun, Texas Women's University, Denton, TX (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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