Under the Rose: What it’s about

I’m now officially behind on my NaNoWriMo goals, but the good news is that I’ve turned the last corner on my line edits. Sixty-three pages left. I’m reminded of the character in Anne of the Island (which Robin has, shamefully, never read) who claims she can’t write a paper unless she throws each page to the ground as soon as she finishes it. Picture me doing that sixty-three times. And at the end, the reward of getting back to writing!

It occurred to me that I have not yet posted the cover copy for Under the Rose, being the second book in the Secret Society Girl Series. Which is, I might add, how I like to think of it, though no notation to that effect appears on the cover.

I wish I could show you guys the back. It’s so amazing. Actually, the backs of both paperbacks are things of beauty and joys forever. The back of SSG shows the rear view of the picture on the front, and all the text is written inside the sweater draped over her shoulders. The back of UTR shows her waist and the top of her blue jeans with a rosebud in her pocket. It’s gorgeous — all those blues and just a hint of red. The art department really outdid themselves there. But I digress.

Under the Rose:

The Washington Post called Diana Peterfreund’s first novel, Secret Society Girl, “Undeniably juicy — from steamy makeout sessions with campus hotties to cloak-and-dagger initiations.” Now Peterfreund returns with a new novel, a wickedly brilliant look at what goes on behind padlocked doors when initiation is over and life as a full-fledged society member begins…

Amy Haskel made it into elite Eli University. then she made it into the ultraselective Order of Rose & Grave. Now a senior, Amy is looking her future squarely in the eye — until someone starts selling society secrets. When a series of bizarre messages suggest conspiracy within the ranks and a female Knight mysteriously disappears, no member of Rose & Grave is safe… or above suspicion.

On her side, Amy has a few loyal Diggirls — her fellow female Rose & Grave Knights. Against her? Certainly it’s a group of Rose & Grave’s uberpowerful patriarchs who want their old boys’ club back. As new developments in her love life threaten to implode and the case of the vanished Diggirl gets weirder by the moment, Amy will need to use every society trick she’s ever learned in order to set things right. Even if it means turning to old adversaries for help — or discovering that the real foes are closer than she’d thought…