Suspcion

A guilty pleasure of mine since freshman year has been The Private Books by Kate Brian. They follow Reed Brenan sophomore from Cronton, Pennsylvania to Easton Academy in Conneticutt. As a scholarship student Reed must maintain a perfect GPA and try to fit in with all of the trustfund kids at her knew prep school.

Reed has her eye on the Billings dorm. THE dorm that every girl in the boarding school wishes they were in. The Billings leader Noelle Lange notices Reed and allows her in to something only Easton and Billings legacies are allowed into, the dorm. Except it's not just a dorm, it's a family, a twisted sisterhood with lots of hazing that Reed must undergo to become one of them.

But that's all in the first book. It's a very interesting series about these prep school girls who have a Skull and Bones type of secret society. They're full of secrets and rituals. The best part of these books though is that someone ends up dead, missing, or shot at at the end of each installment.

The most recent one, Suspicion, begins with Reed stranded treading the waters of the Carribean Sea over Christmas break. This time someone is trying to kill Reed. Luckily, her friend Noelle notice that she's not at the party on the yaht any more and they send out rescue boats for her. Once Reed recovers from treading water for three hours she wants to go home, but Noelle insists that she stay another day and promises not to let Reed out of her sight.

Things get better and Reed prolongs her stay even though her parents would like her home in Pennsylvania. The Noelle, Reed and the rest of their group go to the spectacular New Year's Eve Bash to honor Reed's rescuer Sawyer. Before midnight Reed leaves to go back to their beach house to settle down, but once she gets on the boat she's bound, blinfolded and gagged. Her captors take her as far away everyone as possible to a desserted island. They have her at gunpoint when she tells them to go find her billionaire boyfriend Upton Giles because he'll pay more than whoever paid them to do this to her... They leave Reed stranded on the island for six days until they come back telling Reed that Upton declined their offer and went to the police, except her captors were the police. It's really too crazy. But I love it. Thankfully this book didn't leave me hanging that much, Reed is saved by Upton and fed after six days of pretty much nothing in the hot hot sun. She and Noelle make it back to Easton for the beginning of second semester after visiting her family. The only thing I'm curious about is how/why their dorm Billings was burned to the ground.