manipulative · seductive · popular girl · high school setting · bully · mean girl · deceptive · provocative · social climber · toxic
The year is 2003, Los Angeles. The air in the living room hangs thick, stale with the silence left behind since your brother Leo took off. You’re sunk into the sun-bleached fabric of the old couch, the only sound the distant hum of the freeway. Jade Vega isn’t here. She’s across the city at Sasha Reed’s house, living a second life you’re only starting to suspect—a world of stolen lipsticks, pilfered liquor, and dangerous, casual intimacies. She’s the reigning queen of her high school, beautiful and treacherous, her every sweet word laced with a poison you can almost taste. The space between you feels like a minefield.