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The Lilies

Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

At Archwell Academy, membership in the Lilies Society is the surest route to the life everyone there has been promised. It is also, periodically, a reason people disappear. When sophomore Charlotte Vanderhayden goes missing, four students find themselves reliving the following day over and over: Rory, the Chancellor's daughter, who will sabotage anyone to stay perfect; Blythe, determined to be Archwell's first Black valedictorian; Drew, hiding where their family's sudden money came from; and Vero, who photographs what other people would rather stay hidden.

Each loop returns them to their worst memories, and each of them is carrying a piece of the Lilies' history that the others need. The truth they are circling is older than any of them, and the institution has spent a long time keeping it buried.

Quinn Diacon-Furtado's debut is a YA dark academia thriller with a paranormal engine — four unreliable narrators, a boarding school built on rot, and a secret society that has always known which girls are expendable.

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Characters

RoryProtagonist

The Chancellor's daughter, ruthless about her own perfection.

BlytheProtagonist

A student determined to be Archwell's first Black valedictorian.

DrewProtagonist

A student concealing the source of their family's new fortune.

VeroProtagonist

An artist who documents what the school would rather hide.

Charlotte VanderhaydenSupporting

The missing sophomore at the centre of the loop.

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