num_pages: 372
description: Welcome to Amontillado Ohio where your last name is worth more than money and secrets can be kept for a price.Tress Montor knows that her family used to mean somethinguntil she didnt have a family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home Tress lost everything. She might still be a Montor but the entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the White Trash Zoo  a wild animal attraction featuring a zebra a chimpanzee and a panther among other things. Felicity Turnado has it all  looks money and a secret that shes kept hidden. She knows that one misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder and shes worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she cant even remember what it is only that she cant look at Tress without having a panic attack.But shell have to.Tress has a plan. A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity  brick by brick  as she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. With a drunken party above them and a loose panther on the prowl Tress will have her answers  or settle for revenge.In the first book of this duology award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship... forevermore.
language: English
title: The Initial Insult
publisher: Katherine Tegen Books