Girl Gone Mad

Emily Bennett is a therapist in Pennsylvania who works with children trying to get past painful histories. Her own history is harder to shake. In middle school she belonged to the Harpies, a clique of six popular girls, and together they bullied a new student named Grace Farmer until she broke.

The Harpies swore a blood oath never to tell anyone what they did to Grace. Fourteen years on, one member of the group dies by suicide. Soon after, a second Harpy is found dead, again apparently by her own hand, and the two deaths begin to look less like coincidence and more like something planned.

Then Emily starts to notice a woman lurking in the shadows who looks a great deal like Grace. She has to ask whether Grace has come back for revenge, or whether her own guilt is distorting what she sees.

This is a psychological thriller built on a secret kept for well over a decade. The mystery turns on who can be trusted, and on whether Emily's grip on what is real is slipping. The tone is dark, and the stakes rise with each death among the women who once bullied Grace.