Addictive from its first pages, Colleen McKeegan s The Wild One mines all the complexities and darkness of young women in the battleground of summer camp, fashioning a riveting tale of secrets, shame and a harrowing reckoning.New York Times bestselling author Megan Abbott I couldn t put down this smart and astute pageturning debut. Colleen McKeegan has beautifully crafted a narrative that explores the ways trauma and societal expectations shape the women we become. The engaging prose and razorsharp twists and turns will keep readers on the edges of their seats until the very last page.Jo Piazza, internationally bestselling author of Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win and We Are Not Like Them In this dark and twisted comingofage thriller, a deadly childhood secret that binds three young women threatens to destroy their lives. Amanda Brooks is a bornandbred New Yorker with an envious life she s in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is headoverheels for her handsome, committed boyfriend. But Amanda s life isn t as picture perfect as it seems. For over a decade she s been hiding a dark secreta secret that goes back to that summer at Camp Catalpa when a man died in the woods. Fellow campers Catherine and Meg were there too, and in the years since, not one of them has ever spoken about what happened that day. Until Amanda slipsand the truth threatens to explode the tightly controlled façade of her life. When her past begins to poison her present, threatening her relationship, Amanda has no one to turn to except the two women who know her most monstrous self. Reuniting with Catherine and Meg one last time, Amanda is desperate to put the demons of that twisted summer to rest. But when trusting anyone, even one another, starts to feel like a wildly risky proposition, just how far will these three go to keep the truth from emergingand their lives from unraveling?