Age Group: 12+ Years

Description:

Starting freshman year at the prestigious Brookings University should be a fresh chapter for Anna Xu — top grades, new friends, dorm life and a little distance from her parents' struggling Chinese bakery just across town. But Anna has a quieter mission too: cracking the seven-year-old cold case of her former babysitter, an Asian American student found murdered on this very campus. Things get even messier when she runs into Chris Lu, her childhood rival, whose family has just opened a rival bakery right next door to her parents'. Then a racist tag appears on Chris's storefront — a tag that links straight back to Anna's investigation — and a chilling, personal threat lands at her feet. Forced to team up with Chris, Anna digs into a campus harbouring dark secrets. A taut, unputdownable YA thriller about racism, belonging and finding your voice.