Tap & Gown - An Ivy League Novel

Informationen zum Autor Diana Peterfreund Klappentext Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund's Ivy League novels-Secret Society Girl! Under the Rose! Rites of Spring (Break)! and Tap & Gown. At an elite university! Amy Haskel has been initiated into the country's most notorious secret society. But in this power-hungry world where new blood is at the mercy of old money! hooking up with the wrong people could be fatal. The countdown to Amy's graduation has begun! and suddenly the perfect ending to a perfectly iconoclastic college career is slipping from her grasp. Her new boyfriend is considering an offer he can't refuse! while Amy hasn't even filed her fellowship applications. And the young woman she's chosen to take her place in Rose & Grave seems to come complete with a secret life already intact. Lunging toward real life in the world beyond the hallowed halls of Eli University! Amy finds trouble around every corner! from society intrigues and unlikely stalkers to former flames and mandatory science credits. Surely it couldn't get worse . . . until Initiation Night explodes into a terrifying scene and into a final test of wits for a young woman just trying to make it out of the Ivy League in one piece. Chapter One Pledges I’ve decided that life is a bit like a standardized test. Not putting down an answer because you fear it could be wrong will lower your overall score. Now, as many of my friends (and a few of my enemies) will tell you, I have a tendency to overanalyze. I’m aware of this characteristic within myself, and I do my level best to overcome it. As a result, I have occasionally been known to make snap decisions that, in retrospect, were probably mistakes. Then I remember what those nice folks at the Princeton Review told me, back when I was a green seventeen-year-old terrified I’d never get into college: Narrow down your options and make an educated guess. But be careful. You never know where that decision is going to take you. Almost a year ago, I accepted the tap from Rose & Grave, Eli University’s most powerful, exclusive, and notorious secret society. I knew my life would change. What I didn’t realize was how. I figured my induction into their order would net me some contacts in my preferred field, add extra oomph to my resume, and provide an insurance plan for the future that loomed just beyond my next set of final exams. What I didn’t expect was that it would open my eyes to a whole world of my own potential. I no longer even wanted the job I’d once hoped Rose & Grave would help me get. I also didn’t count on a host of new friends, some of whom I’d never dreamed of associating with before—a few of whom I’d actively disliked. I certainly never knew how much danger one little club membership could result in, though I’d spent the last year being threatened, thwarted, chased, conspired against, and even once—bizarrely—kidnapped. But most of all, I didn’t realize that the following March, I’d be sitting on a couch that looked like it had been fished out of the trash, staring at a guy I’d never even have looked twice at, and wondering if I dared answer the following: Amy Haskel, are you in love? A)Yes B)No C)Insufficient Data to Answer This Question Oh, hell, it’s C, which is why there was no way I was going to let our Spring Break fling end. He couldn’t do the secret hooking-up thing anymore? Fine. We’d try something new. “I’m really sick of secrets,” I said, and kissed him. Brilliant as Jamie Orcutt is, it took him several seconds to parse the meaning of my statement. When he did, the kiss turned from hesitant to heated in no time at all. Somehow we shifted from a relatively decent and G-rated side-to-side to something that rated the sort of parental supervision we had zero interest in at the moment. And, say what you will about how t...

Product details

• Authors: Diana Peterfreund
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2009
• EAN: 9780385341943
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34194-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Secret Society Girl; Secret Society Girl
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature