But things don't go as planned in the Arizona desert, because sweet Mikey just wants to be friends. After spending time in treatment with other young women like her-who cut, burn, poke, and otherwise hurt themselves-Charlie is released and takes a bus from the Twin Cities to Tucson to be closer to Mikey, a boy she 'like-likes' but who had pined for Ellis instead. Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. Most characters are assumed white Victoria is Latinx.Ī focus on sisterhood and more than a few whiplash-inducing twists propel this smart and scandalous tale.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself.

Could the bones be Ana’s? Soon, Sawyer unearths more than bones: Blackmail, lies, and treachery simmer just below the surface of the most placid of Southern smiles, and tantalizing glimpses into the past are woven in with Sawyer’s wry narration. When Sawyer and the initiates stumble upon human bones during a White Gloves initiation, rumors fly. Ana, along with Sawyer’s mother, was part of a pregnancy pact 20 years ago, but Ana disappeared without a trace. However, an exclusive White Gloves invite provides a chance to investigate the fate of her mother’s friend Ana Gutierrez since Victoria, who’s running the show, shares Ana’s last name. She treasures her friendship with her cousin Lily and would like to spend some quality time over the summer with charming bad boy outsider Nick.

Sawyer now knows her father’s identity, but revealing the truth could be explosive.

It’s been a few months since former auto mechanic Sawyer signed an agreement with her grandmother Lillian to participate in debutante season in exchange for a college education and the truth about her real father. Newly minted Southern deb Sawyer Taft is invited to compete for a spot in a secret society called the White Gloves in the sequel to Little White Lies (2018).

Deadly little scandals book 3