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Think Amy “Bugaboo” Haskel has confessed it all? Au contraire! There are gaps in the written record, and now you can read all about them!

Here, you will find stories that fit between the lines of the Secret Society Girl books, when Amy wasn’t present to confess the events. Did you ever wonder what happened when Lydia met Josh? What did Felicity say to Brandon to get him to forgive her? How did that conversation about Amy go between Malcolm and Poe?

An exclusive, original story appeared every...

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[Please note: The events in this story take place at the end of RITES OF SPRING (BREAK) and are a complete spoiler for everything that occurs in that book. If you haven’t read that novel, you’re probably not going to follow anything that is going on here.]

Someone else’s feet pounded down the dock. Someone else ignored the calls of friend and foe. Someone else evaded Salt’s grasping hands and leapt for the deck of the yacht. Someone else pulled the ropes free of the moorings and pushed the...

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Please note: This story takes place directly after the events on page 88, chapter 5 of Rites of Spring (Break), and includes spoilers through chapter 6 of that novel. Basically, if you aren’t familiar with the Brandon plotline of this book, you probably won’t understand this story.

My father, a tycoon of industry, lives by the following rule:

Know your enemy as you know yourself.

My mother, who married my father only days after he ended his engagement to her best friend, is also a devotee of ...

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POE AT THE GATES

[Author’s Note: This story takes place about 3/4 into UNDER THE ROSE, specifically, after the first scene in chapter 18, Benefits (pg 301 if you wish to refresh your memory). The Diggers have just exposed Elysion; Amy and George have just left Poe standing at the gates of Prescott College.]

“Drop dead, Jamie,” she said and disappeared into the night with her lover. I wrapped my hands around the frigid iron bars of the Prescott College Gate, squeezed until the bones of my...

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Note: The events in this story take place at the beginning of Under the Rose, however, they contain spoilers for the entire book.

Lydia Travinecek had come to believe that certain things about her life were fait accompli. She would be named captain of her high school debate team. She would be accepted to Eli University Early Decision. She would subsequently be named valedictorian of her high school graduating class. That all of these things came to pass was greeted by Lydia not as any great...

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Note: This story takes place in the middle of Under the Rose, specifically, after the events on page 84.


It had been three hours and I still hadn’t calmed down. I’d tried the library, but I was far too agitated to deal with ConLaw, and the guy in the next study carrel had a serious headphone-leak issue. What I didn’t understand was how he could concentrate on his reading while blasting Weird Al Yankovic.

Back in my apartment, I paced, then took a shower, then made some ramen noodles, then threw...

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Please note: This story takes place after the end of Secret Society Girl

The guy across the street went to Eli, and he’s throwing a party. At least, that’s as much as I can discern from the line of cars now crowding his driveway and taking up space along the curb for a block in either direction. Most of the cars bear Eli window stickers, which jump out at me like neon lights. Some of the people heading into the party are wearing Eli T-shirts.

There are four of us working in the clients’ yard:...

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