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One of Us is Lying meets Hitchcock in this YA retelling of Strangers on a Train from celebrated author of the #MurderTrending series, Gretchen McNeil.I did my part, BFF. Now it's your turn. Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn't really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl's empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when she grabs the attention of the beautiful, charismatic Diane, she falls right under her spell, and may accidentally promise to murder Diane's predatory step-brother, Javier, in exchange for Diane murdering Yasmin. But that was just a joke ... right? Wrong. When Yasmin turns up dead, Diane comes calling, attempting to blackmail Neve into murdering Javier.
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Gretchen McNeil is the author of the YA horror/suspense novels POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN (a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth) all with Balzer Bray for HarperCollins. Gretchen's first YA contemporary I'M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, also with Balzer Bray, hit shelves in 2016.Her horror-comedy novel #MURDERTRENDING for Disney/Freeform made the Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2018 list and was also a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers as well as an ILA Young Adults' Choices for 2019 and a YALSA 2019 Teens' Top Ten nominee. The sequel #MURDERFUDNING will be released on August 6, 2019.Gretchen's novels have been published internationally in Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, French, Thai, and Czech. The film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain (Descendants 2, Black Lightning) premiered on Lifetime on September 16, 2017, and the BBC/Netflix series "Get Even" adapted from the novels GET EVEN and GET DIRTY will premiere in 2020.Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Website: https://www.gretchenmcneil.comTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/GretchenMcNeilInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gretchen_mcneilFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorGretchenMcNeil: http://www..com/GretchenMcNeil
