Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls

In this propulsive debut thriller, a high school junior becomes involved in a secret society dedicated to exposing the truth about her private Manhattan school. But soon she suspects that the society's anonymous leaders—who just might include her new girlfriend—have even darker motives.

When the first letter appears in Kay Anderson’s locker, it carries one instruction: dye your hand blue.

She definitely shouldn’t follow it. Kay doesn't have time for secret societies: as a scholarship student at up-and-coming Manhattan prep school Davison High, she knows her job is to work hard, get into Northwestern, and ignore her wealthy classmates’ fun-filled Instagram stories. Besides, her first and only real friend at Davison died suddenly last year.

Still, Kay's intrigued, so she stains her palms with ink to join the mysterious Blue Hand Girls, sharing an unspoken thrill with the classmates who do the same. More letters show up, assigning risky initiation tasks, and Kay realizes the group is set on exposing the shady business that Davison's founders would rather keep hidden—things that her dead friend might have known about. But the anonymous instructions also demand the girls reveal their own secrets, bonding them all too close to abandon the society. Soon Kay doesn't know who's more dangerous: the powerful people who run her school, or the Blue Hand Girls themselves. The answer might lie with Zola, the enigmatic redhead in Kay’s Calculus class whose handwriting may or may not match the ones in the letters. Her hand stays undyed. But Kay suspects, even as she kisses Zola on the roof of Davison High, that Zola might be the most dangerous of them all.