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โMorrow uses her heroineโs warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and class in America, but this isnโt a book intended to teach anyone a lesson, except maybe: Be careful. You never know whoโs really in control.โโLos 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 friendโs 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 WGSโWhite Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents canโt seem to affordโand 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 sheโs convinced sheโs always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she lovesโeven 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 themโif they didnโt think something was wrong with Farrah, too. When strange things start happening at the Whitman householdโdebilitating illnesses, upsetting fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherishโs hotheaded boyfriend, and a mysterious journal that seems to keep track of what is happening to Farrahโitโs nothing she canโt handle. But soon everything begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and itโs anyoneโs guess who is really in control.
Told in Farrahโs 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.