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The Initial Insult

By Mindy McGinnis
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Hardcover edition

Publisher HarperCollins Imprint Katherine Tegen ISBN

9780062982421

Awards and Honors 2022 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults

The Initial Insult

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CONTENT NOTIFICATIONS

Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Alcohol Abuse,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Marijuana Use,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Strong Language,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes

In the first book of this suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship … forevermore.



Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kept … for a price.



Tress Montor knows that her family used to mean something—until she didn’t have a family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. The entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the “White Trash Zoo.”



Felicity Turnado has it all: looks, money, and a secret. She knows that one misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and she’s worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she can’t even remember what it is … only that she can’t look at Tress without feeling shame and guilt.



But she’ll have to. Tress has a plan. A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity—brick by brick—as she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. Tress will have her answers—or settle for revenge.
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