The Fall of Iris Henley

by Dodie Ownes

Senior year of high school can be tough—the cliques, the academic pressure, the romantic entanglements—but for Iris Henley, it’s even harder. Last school year, her boyfriend, Rocky, murdered her ex-best friend before killing himself at the Koenig ranch, and the rumors and scandal are still swirling. But Iris has her cheer squad besties for support. And good thing—she’s not getting that from her overachiever parents, who want her to just get over it, or from her younger cosplayer sister, who bears the brunt of family criticism. When a message shows up on the Sekrit app that states “Iris Henley is a murderer,” her life unravels. As her sports-camp crush, Jonah, begins to text her, Iris finds herself opening up to him. But, when the secrets she has shared with Jonah begin to appear on Sekrit, Iris starts to suspect that Rocky isn’t the killer he’s been made out to be, and Jonah may not be who he says he is, either. Graham captures all the angst of high school alongside the narrative of a botched murder investigation in a small insular town, where everyone has secrets that they want to keep.

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