Diana Peterfreund - Ivy League 4 Tap & Gown

Terrific wound tightly around an expert conspiracy plot and a bumpy convincing love story

Though Rites is not an overtly political novel, it would be insensitive to ignore the parallels between Amys travails and the quagmire in Iraq: This is a story about how to deal with perpetual war carried out unpredictably and unconventionallyhow to survive, while keeping your sense of humor, when youve been targeted by an invisible enemy whose demands your pride will not permit you to meet. Its very funny, also: After Amy almost drowns as a result of someone tampering with her life jacket, her head is

whirring so hard that you could pour some rum in [her] skull and make daiquiris.

New York Observer

As tension escalates, Peterfreund adds an appealing romance subplot. The novel moves fast, packs some laughs and does its job as a light diversion.

Publishers Weekly

Once again, Peterfreund mixes mystery, romance, and typical college high jinks. Its an ideal summer readwhether island bound or not.

Booklist

Rites of Spring (Break) is an entertaining quick trip into college life at an elite university Classes, final papers, applications for grad school, secret societiesall this and the personal and secret society life of the main character are portrayed in clever, witty terms the best of the series that includes SecretSociety Girl and Under the Rose . Amy is quirky and endearing. The story has good pacing, consistent characters, and enough action to make things exciting.

Romance Reviews Today

Deep within the Rose & Grave secret society at Eli University, the secrets even members arent privy to make Peterfreunds second novel impossible to put down. Peterfreund offers an intimate view of the modus operandi of a college society. Readers will be absorbed by the juicy romance plots.

Publishers Weekly

Diana Peterfreund has performed a minor miracle; she has created a sequel that works. The entire cast Page 1

is back from Secret Society Girl , and boy, are they hiding some secrets. Ms. Peterfreund has also managed to weave a very credible, complicated mystery into the plot, with more twists and turns than you would believe. Under the Rose is definitely worthy reading for this summer.

Romance Reviews Today

Cross Dink Stover with Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones and you get Amy Haskel, the sarcastic senior at transparently disguised Eli University who briskly narrates this winning mystery.

Yale Alumni Magazine

Peterfreund pairs romance and suspense in a picaresque university setting with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. Readers who picked up the series debut will be excited to continue the adventures of Amy and her cohorts. The author doesnt spend too much time rehashing the first book, but new readers will get swept up in the sexy story in no time.

Booklist

Under the Rose is every bit as involving and hard-to-put-down as its predecessorperhaps even more so. If college life is a kegger, Peterfreunds series is a cocktail in a sugar-rimmed martini glass, sophisticated and easily gulped but delivering a satisfying kick.

Winston-Salem Journal

The action is undeniably juicyfrom steamy make-out sessions with campus hotties to cloak-and-dagger initiations.

The Washington Post

[A] tell-all book about secret societies at Ivy League schools Think The Da Vinci Code meets Bridget Jones.

Toledo Blade

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Secret Society Girl succeeds. Ms. Peterfreunds descriptions of the ambitious Amy Haskels collegial life are both vivid and amusing.

New York Observer

Cheerful, sensible, with just enough insiders scoop to appeal to the conspiracy theorist in everyone

Readers will cheer on the not-so-underdog as she faces male alumni and finds that membership does indeed have privileges.

Tampa Tribune

Thanks to a quirky, likable protagonist youll be rooting for long after youve turned the last page and a provocative blurring of fact and fiction, Secret Society Girl provides the perfect excuse to set aside your required reading this summer and bask in a few hours of collegiate nostalgia.

Bookreporter.com

Fun to readfull of quirky characters and situations.

Booklist

A frothy summer read for anyone interested in the collegiate antics of the secret rulers of the world.

Bloomberg News

The plot is a winner.

Kirkus Reviews

Secret Society Girl is a fun, breezy, beach-perfect diversion unfailingly hip, with a myriad of cultural and intellectual references to everything from Eyes Wide Shut to Aristotles Poetics. It will keep you entertained as you tag along on Amys adventure.

Winston-Salem Journal

Secret Society Girl is a blast! Fun and witty, with an engaging theme, heartfelt situations, intriguing dialogue, and a cast of characters that youll be cheering for, its a story you wont want to put down.

You wont go wrong picking up a copy of this clever, imaginative story.

TeensReadToo.com

Very smart exceptionally well-structured. The author obviously knows her material. Witty and suspenseful, Secret Society Girl is an original concept expertly executed.

RomanceDivas.com

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Also by Diana Peterfreund

SECRET SOCIETY GIRL

UNDER THE ROSE

RITES OF SPRING(BREAK)

For Kerri

Contents

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Cover

Title Page

Other Books By This Author

Dedication

Chapter 1 - Pledges

Chapter 2 - Concessions

Chapter 3 - Stalkers

Chapter 4 - New World Order

Chapter 5 - Feudalism

Chapter 6 - The Party

Chapter 7 - Deliberations

Chapter 09 - Lovers and Other Strangers

Chapter 10 - Bride of the Night

Chapter 11 - Nevermore

Chapter 12 - Goners

Chapter 13 - Turncoat

Chapter 14 - Diplomacy

About the Author

Copyright

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Youve heard the legends, Im sure. You arrived on this campus in a state of awe, of wonderment.

Maybe youre the latest in a long line of students bearing your family name to matriculate to our fine university. Maybe youre a celebrity, or foreign royalty, or a sports star, or a genius at the near-lost art of lute playing. Maybe youre a Westinghouse scholar, a national debate champion, or the valedictorian of an elite, East Coast boarding school where your name was on the register from the moment you were born. Or maybe youre none of the above. Perhaps youre just handy with the SATs, rocked grades nine through twelve, and charmed the heck out of the middle-aged lawyer who interviewed you one evening in his satellite office on behalf of his alma mater. Whatever way it happened, you ended up at Eli.