SPIES AND PREJUDICE

At sixteen, Berry Fields knows everything she needs to know about love. It sucks. As an employee for her dad’s private investigation business, she’s seen it firsthand. Men lie, cheat, leave. Even Berry’s dad is love’s victim, having never fully recovered from the death of his wife ten years earlier.

When Xander Halston and his brother Christian transfer to McHenry High, Berry is not impressed. She knows the type - good looking and conceited. And it doesn’t help that Xander always seems to catch her at her worst moments. But when Berry’s best friend hits it off with Christian, it becomes impossible to avoid Xander. At the same time, Berry’s surveillance of a college professor takes an unexpected turn. Berry is not the only one watching him. That fact alone might be explained easily enough, since the guy is a major creep who probably has more than a few enemies, but there’s no explanation for the document in his briefcase written on her dead mother’s letterhead.

Berry embarks on her own investigation into her mother’s death, posing as an economics student to get closer to the professor. As she gets drawn deeper into a web of lies, she finds herself fighting against everything she thought she knew, about her mother, herself, and her growing attraction to Xander Halston.

Category: Young Adult