Jill, the "good girl," who wasn't going to have sex until she was in love...Hilton, her best friend, the one who believes everything happens for a reason...Laney and Natalie, their college roommates...Adam, the fun-loving, irresistible playboy Jill has a crush on...Luke, Hilton's boyfriend of two-and-a-half years...Todd, Jill's other best friend and the boy she loved for five years, even though he never knew it. All living it up and having the times of their lives on two college campuses i...

In May 2007, two photographs drastically changed the course of Hilton Joliet's life. Now, twenty months later, the wild ride hasn't stopped. It's a new year of jetting off to a different location each week, hanging with the best tennis players in the world, taking the scandalous pictures of them her boss at Game Set Match magazine loves her for, and finally starting to work on her book, which will document one year in her life through pictures and places and be called Living in a Postcard,...

The emotional wreckage of a failed proposal. A broken ankle. A wild bachelorette party at a gay bar. A jaw-dropping exposé on one of the world's top tennis players. That was May in Paris in 2009, when the tennis tour landed in the city for its annual French Open fortnight. Hilton Joliet, a photographer for the magazine Game Set Match and a friend of several players on tour, was at the center of it all. And in the two months since Paris, life has continued to serve up surprises.A mo...

One night at a dive bar in the East Village, best friends Jansen, Jason, Hersh, and Clint create a secret society. One with a fake past full of murders, ghosts, and family secrets. A joke, meant to freak out their school friends, who will no doubt fall for it.Because in the single-sex private schools of Manhattan's über-wealthy Upper East Side, where GPAs and coke highs are through the roof, last night's mind-numbing party is this morning's eyeroll-inducingly exaggerated story, and...

At the end of sophomore year, Jill, Hilton, and Lorylyn made a pact to live their lives to the fullest over the summer, and they set out to do exactly that. As Brady and Brooke take a whirlwind tour through Spain and Portugal, the girls, now honed and accomplished liars, spend more and more drunken nights at Landon's and feel less and less guilty about deceiving their parents. Hilton's relationship with Landon takes on a new intensity. Jill, devastated by the gap between herself and Todd t...

The summer before senior year. Lazy afternoons in Jill's pool, an all-out TP-ing war, wild parties at Landon's. Hillary is more into Dirk than ever, and even though this summer is bittersweet for Hilton and Lorylyn because of Landon's and Brady's imminent departures, both girls agree their relationships are the best they've ever been. Not everything is perfect though...Todd's parents' divorce is turning nastier by the day, and Jill desperately clings to increasingly infrequent moments with...

When the guy Lorylyn Porter thought was the love of her life tells her he's engaged, her world collapses. It doesn't matter that she married somebody else five years ago, or that she still keeps in touch with a fling from a summer on Martha's Vineyard, or that she fantasizes about another guy she might love more than all of them.As she fights to move on from the news, write a dissertation on her own theory of love, and become the person she wants to be, her past and present love st...

A plane ticket to New York with an anonymous note: "Please come. I need to talk to you and I have a surprise for you." A scandalous engagement. A long-sought-after answer that was once of ultimate importance but will now have unforeseen consequences. Two nearly decade-long relationships dissolving in hours. Sightings of a little girl who may or may not exist. A photograph titled From Budapest With Love. An international murder with ties surprisingly close to home.It's not exactly w...

Irelan University in Irvine, Indiana, with its whitewashed, medieval-looking buildings and air-conditioned dorms where everyone lives in suites, seems like the ideal small school in almost every way. And Lorylyn Porter loves the college lifestyle...staying up all night, sleeping all day, partying during the week...plus, she couldn't have asked for better suitemates. The four of them – Lorylyn, Zibby, Kylar, and Jansen – quickly become an inseparable group, dubbing themselves the Weird-Name...

Jansen has long resented her conceited parents, their money-and-social-standing-mean-everything attitudes, and the pretentious tennis-club and Hamptons-parties lifestyle they push on her. But after learning her mom, Scarlett, tried to murder Clint's mom, Cindy, Jansen's resentment turns to a hatred she has no idea how she'll conceal.As she, Clint, Jason, and Hersh reel in the wake of their discovery, everything feels surreal to Jansen. The inane love lives of her school friends, ni...

Only four other people (besides Robert) know of the existence of what I took from the Mistress Suite that day, and three of them are dead."…doesn't know about Anabelle.""It is coming true."Words. Some written in a diary in 1973, others tidbits of whispered conversations. They're the final puzzle pieces in the deeply hidden, never-recorded-in-the-Magic-8-Ball history of the Circles of Eight, a secret society whose current members may practically claw each other's eye...

For Jill Sherer, high school's shaping up to be better than she could've imagined. From the first week of cheerleading practice, she and her best friends Hillary and Lorylyn are included in a circle of popular girls who open the door to a world of exciting social possibilities. And on the first day of school, Jill meets Todd – hot, smart, athletic, funny, and a flirt – the boy of her dreams.But things with Todd don't go as Jill had hoped, she and Hillary drift apart, and her circle...