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Joelle Wellington
Joelle Wellington writes young adult fiction. Her book, Their Vicious Games, is a popular thriller that explores high-stakes competition.
Their Vicious Games
Adina Walker has known the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy that she must work twice as hard to get half as much. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything, and it does: one fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted from her top-choice Ivy League college and any other. Her only chance to regain the future she's sacrificed everything for is the Finish, a high-stakes contest sponsored by Edgewater's founding family in which twelve young, ambitious women are selected to compete in three mysterious events: the Ride, the Raid, and the Royale. The winner is granted entry into the fold of the Remington family, whose wealth and power can open any door. But when she arrives, Adina quickly senses something isn't right with both the Remingtons and her fellow competitors, and it becomes clear the prize can only come at a far greater cost, because the Finish's stakes aren't just make or break, they're life and death.
A Black scholarship student at Edgewater Academy who enters a deadly elite competition to reclaim her Ivy League future.