Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund

Until Amys tap class, Rose & Grave had been exclusively a male-only society, and many of the old-fashioned patriarchs want to keep it that way. Surrounded by the rich, beautiful, accomplished, and famous, Amy feels extremely out of place, and wonders if she had been mistakenly tapped.Īll of a sudden, a crisis descends that threatens to tear apart the whole society.

Which is why she is utterly surprised when she is tapped by one of the famed Eli secret societiesin fact, by THE most notorious secret society of all, Rose & Grave, for which admittance promises eternal job security, prime networking, and lifelong happiness, more or less.Įncouraged by her friend-with-benefits Brandon Weare to stop overthinking for once, Amy accepts Rose & Graves tap, and soon finds herself swept up in the strange new world of initiation and the company of people she would never have associated with if it werent for the common bond of their society: sons of governors and bitchy girls who did her wrong, for example. And that’s before Amy finds out that her first duty as a member of Rose & Grave is to take on a conspiracy of money and power that could, quite possibly, ruin her whole life.Ī smart, sexy introduction to the life and times of a young woman in way over her head, Secret Society Girl is a charming and witty debut from a writer who knows her turf-and isn’t afraid to tell all.Īmy Haskel is a junior at the esteemed Eli University, editor of the college literary magazine&and not much else.

Because Rose & Grave is quickly taking her away from her familiar world of classes and keggers, fueling a feud, and undermining a very promising friendship with benefits. And that’s when Amy starts to discover the truth about getting what you wish for. Whisked off into an initiation rite that’s a blend of Harry Potter and Alfred Hitchcock, Amy awakens the next day to a new reality and a whole new set of “friends”-from the gorgeous son of a conservative governor to an Afrocentric lesbian activist whose society name is Thorndike.

So when Amy receives the distinctive black-lined invitation with the Rose & Grave seal, she’s blown away. She isn’t rich, politically connected, or…well, male. In a fabulous blend of the bestselling traditions of Prep and The Devil Wears Prada, Secret Society Girl takes us into the heart of the Ivy League’s ultraexclusive secret societies when a young woman is invited to join as one of their first female members.Įlite Eli University junior Amy Haskel never expected to be tapped into Rose & Grave, the country’s most powerful-and notorious-secret society.

Secret Society Girl by Diana Peterfreund