num_pages: 272
description: Who is Katherine Patterson? It is a question she hopes no one can answer. To erase her past Katherine has moved to a new city enrolled in a new school and even changed her name. Shes done the next best thing to disappearing altogether. Now wary and alone she seeks nothing more than anonymity. What she finds instead is the last thing she expected: a friend.Even more unlikely Katherines new friend is the most popular and magnetic girl in school. Extroverted gorgeous flirtatious and unpredictable she is everything that Katherine is not and doesnt want to be: the center of attention. Yet Alices enthusiasm is infectious her candor sometimes unsettling and Katherine in spite of her guarded caution finds herself drawn into Alices private circle. But Alice has secrets toodarker than anyone can begin to imagine. And when she lets her guard down at last Katherine discovers the darkest of them all. For there will be no escaping the past for Katherine Pattersononly a descent into a trap far more sinister . . . and infinitely more seductive.
language: English
title: Beautiful Malice
publisher: Bantam