Meet Reed Brennan -- smart, pretty but plain. When she wins a scholarship to the prestigious Easton Academy, she thinks it's a dream ticket. No more boring suburban life. No more pill-popping mother. At Easton, everyone is beautiful and everyone is wealthy -- none more so that the Billings Girls, an elite group who practically run the school.

Reed's an outsider but when she sees the Billings Girls, she wants in. Using every bit of her cunning, she is gradually drawn into the inner circle -- what she finds there puts her in great danger. For while the Billings Girls are stylish, confident and popular, they're also holding secrets that could turn Easton upside down. Secrets that they'll go to any length to keep private...