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BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK Morrow uses her heroine's warped perspective to examine painful
truths about race and class in America but this isn't a book intended to teach anyone a lesson
except maybe: Be careful. You never know who's really in control.-Los Angeles Times From
bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow comes a new adult social horror novel in the vein of Get
Out meets My Sister the Serial Killer about Farrah a young calculating Black girl who
manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend's white wealthy adoptive family
but soon suspects she may not be the only one with ulterior motives. . . . Seventeen-year-old
Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community and the only one with
Black parents. Her best friend Cherish Whitman adopted by a white wealthy family is
something Farrah likes to call WGS-White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as
parents Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black
parents can't seem to afford-and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can
exploit. When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure the calculating
Farrah is determined to reassert the control she's convinced she's always had over her life by
staying with Cherish the only person she loves-even when she hates her. As troubled Farrah
manipulates her way further into the Whitman family the longer she stays the more her own
parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. She might trust them-if they
didn't think something was wrong with Farrah too. When strange things start happening at the
Whitman household-debilitating illnesses upsetting fever dreams an inexplicable tension with
Cherish's hotheaded boyfriend and a mysterious journal that seems to keep track of what is
happening to Farrah-it's nothing she can't handle. But soon everything begins to unravel when
the Whitmans invite Farrah closer and it's anyone's guess who is really in control. Told in
Farrah's chilling unforgettable voice and weaving in searing commentary on race and class
this slow-burn social horror will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
