Last year, a scandal rocked the high school. Jenna's topless pictures were posted on a social media. A junior at the time, Jenna bitterly complained to the school's principal and anyone else who would listen, but ultimately was told that it was her fault those pictures existed in the first place. She never got justice. The pictures came from her boyfriend Kyle's phone, but he says he didn't post it, so the two of them broke up.
Drew is Kyle's best friend, and one of the star basketball players at school. Unlike most of the other jocks, he also happens to be a good student, but won't need to rely on his smarts to get a full ride to university. An attractive guy and a smooth talker, Drew is suave and manipulative, and he often able to get nude pictures from girls at his school. Most of the boys on the team collect them and share them with the team in a twisted contest, but Drew is by far the champion. Until the Jenna incident, Drew had never been able to score naked pictures of her.
Mouse has been in love with Jenna forever. A computer nerd hoping to get into MIT on a scholarship so he can escape his overbearing father, he programmed a nifty database that allows the jocks at school to catalog all of the nude and topless pictures of girls they receive. In exchange, Mouse gets paid a decent amount of money, which will help him move out.
Now in the last semester of their senior year, all three of them are assigned to work on a project together in a law class where they will study the violation of privacy that happens when nude pictures are distributed. Jenna feels she's been punished. Mouse is thrilled to work with the girl he loves. Drew finds Jenna fair dating game, since she and Kyle are no longer together.
Now in the last semester of their senior year, all three of them are assigned to work on a project together in a law class where they will study the violation of privacy that happens when nude pictures are distributed. Jenna feels she's been punished. Mouse is thrilled to work with the girl he loves. Drew finds Jenna fair dating game, since she and Kyle are no longer together.
While working on their project, they elaborate a plan to see if they can obtain nude pictures of their law teacher, to demonstrate how easy it is to get them. To their surprise, it doesn't take long before they get racy pictures. When those are also leaked, however, all three of them are hauled in the principal's office for conferences with the police. Who leaked the photos, and why?
Told from three different perspectives and moving back and forth in time, the story is confusing at first, but soon grows into a psychological thriller and mystery. Several hot topics are combined, including drug use, sexting, and exploitation. The characters are all realistic, and as the book careens towards the reveal, readers will be on the edge of their seats trying to figure out who's ultimately responsible.
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