Delicate Monsters: A Novel

Delicate Monsters: A Novel by Kuehn, Stephanie. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781250063847.

When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her familys California vineyard estate. Here, shes meant to stay out of trouble. Here, shes meant to do a lot of things. But its hard. Shes bored. And when Sadies bored, the only thing she likes is trouble. Emerson Tates a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. All he wants his senior year is to play basketball and make something happen with the girl of his dreams. Thats why Emersons not happy Sadies back. An old childhood friend, she knows his worst secrets. The things he longs to forget. The things she wont ever let him. Haunted is a good word for fifteen-year-old Miles Tate. Miles can see the future, after all. And he knows his vision of tragic violence at his school will come true, because his visions always do. Thats what he tells the new girl in town. The one who listens to him. The one who recognizes the darkness in his past. But can Miles stop the violence? Or has the future already been written? Maybe tragedy is his destiny. Maybe its all of theirs. Delicate Monsters is Stephanie Kuehn at her finest.