Synopses & Reviews
When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her familys California vineyard estate. Here, shes meant to stay out of trouble. Here, shes meant to do a lot of things. But its hard. Shes bored. And when Sadies bored, the only thing she likes is trouble.
Emerson Tates a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. All he wants his senior year is to play basketball and make something happen with the girl of his dreams. Thats why Emersons not happy Sadies back. An old childhood friend, she knows his worst secrets. The things he longs to forget. The things she wont ever let him.
Haunted is a good word for fifteen-year-old Miles Tate. He can see the future, after all. He knows his vision of tragic violence at his school will come true, because his visions always do. Thats what he tells the new girl in town. The one who listens to him. The one who recognizes the darkness in his past.
But can Miles stop the violence? Or has the future already been written? Maybe tragedy is his destiny. Maybe its all of theirs.
Review
Praise for Stephanie Kuehn: "Kuehn writes with the fleetness of a trained thriller author...Explosive."—Booklist (starred review) on Complicit "Kuehns second novel, after her Morris Award-winning Charm & Strange, powerfully examines how mental illness can turn into family tragedy that ripples far and wide beyond a single event. The prose is as hallucinatory as the madness Jamie seeks to uncover in a novel thats tense and ambiguous from start to finish."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Complicit "A high-powered voice rich in charismatic style and emotional intensity illuminates this ambitious debut."—Kirkus Reviews on Charm & Strange
About the Author
STEPHANIE KUEHN is the William C. Morris Award-winning author of Charm & Strange. She holds degrees in linguistics and sport psychology, and is currently working toward a doctorate in clinical psychology. She lives in Northern California with her husband, their three children, and a joyful abundance of pets. When shes not writing, shes running. Or reading. Or dreaming.