num_pages: 416
description: Sadie meets The Girls in this riveting debut psychological thriller about a lonely college freshman seduced into joining a cultand her desperate attempt to escape before it's too late. College life isnt what Emily expected.She expected to spend freshman year strolling through the ivy-covered campus with new friends finally feeling like she belonged. Instead she walks the campus alone still not having found her place or her people so far away from home. But then the Kingdom finds her. The Kingdom an exclusive on-campus group offers everything Emily expected of college and more: acceptance friends a potential boyfriend and a chance to spend the summer in Italy on a mission trip. But the trip is not what she thought it would be. Emily and the others are stripped of their passports and money. Theyre cut off from their families back home. The Kingdoms practices become increasingly manipulative and dangerous. And someone ends up dead.At times unsettling and always riveting Those Who Prey looks at the allure of cult life while questioning just how far were willing to go to find where we belong.
language: English
title: Those Who Prey
publisher: Atheneum, Simon & Schuster