The Diamonds

At Long Islands's private Bennington School, the Diamonds rule supreme. They're the girls all the boys want to date and all the girls want to be. And fortunately for Marni, she'sright in the middle of them. Best friends with the ringleader, Clarissa, Marni enjoys all the spoils of the ultrapopular: boys, power, and respect. But then Marni gets a little too close to Clarissa'sex-boyfriend, Anderson.

Wrong move. The Diamonds don't touch each other's exes.

And just like that, Marni is jettisoned from Diamond to lower than CubicZirconia.

But Marni isn't about to take her ouster lying down. She has dirt on the Diamonds, and she's not about to go down without a fight. Everyone knows, the only thing strongenough to cut a Diamond is another Diamond.

Ted Michael is a literary agent and first time novelist. He lives in New York, New York. "From the Trade Paperback edition."