Title: Burning girl
First published: 1999
Description: "A young scholarship student, the rich girl who befriends him, her handsome brother who wedges himself dangerously between the two; a rape, a murder, horrifying photographs found at the crime scene; and the undeniably sensual draw our hero feels to both sister and brother, who may or may not have blood on their hands."--BOOK JACKET.

"Drew Burke is twenty - a working-class college student in Baltimore. Seduced by the wealth that surrounds him, Drew finds himself drawn into a complex and sensually charged friendship with fellow student Bahar Richards and her brother, Jake. With Bahar, it's a soulmates' bond; with Jake, it's a romance born of a fierce sexual attraction. But a strange wall of mystery surrounds Jake, which Drew can't seem to penetrate.

Then, over an intimate long weekend at the Richards family home, certain shocking details about Jake's past come to light, and the more Drew learns, the more he suspects he hasn't heard the entire story. Torn between brother and sister, whose versions of the past don't quite match, Drew becomes caught in a maze of half-lies and manipulations as he tries to figure out who to trust and, ultimately, who to love."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, College student, Murder, Brothers and sisters, Gay students, Friendship, College students, Students, Johns Hopkins University, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Friendship, fiction, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Maryland, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction
Places: Baltimore (Md.)
LC classification: PS3564.E296 B87 1999