DARE ME: A NOVEL
JULY 2012 HARDCOVER
Dare Me: A Novel
Megan Abbott
978-0-316-09777-2, $24.99
Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are the cheerleaders all the other girls fear and admire. But everything changes when the new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, Coach French seems perfect in every way, a charismatic presence who overturns the girls’ established pecking order yet manages to gain their fierce allegiance.
Then a shocking event upends their fragile peace, and a police investigation begins circling in on the coach and her squad. As the girls’ season moves towards its finale, the stakes grow higher, and more dangerous, and Addy and Beth are forced to ask where their loyalties lie.
Award-winning novelist Megan Abbott, writing with what Tom Perrotta has hailed as “total authority and an almost desperate intensity,” offers up a Fight Club among cheerleaders, a harrowing exploration into the dark heart of the all-American girl.
About the author: Megan Abbott won the 2008 Edgar and Barry Awards for her third novel, Queenpin. Her novel Bury Me Deep was a finalist for the 2010 Edgar Award, the Hammett Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She was also shortlisted for an Edgar Award in 2006, for Die a Little. Her most recent hardcover, The End of Everything, was an Indie Next pick; was featured in Time, the New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly; and won advance praise from bestselling authors Tom Perrotta, Kate Atkinson, and Tana French. It will be published in trade paperback in 7/12.
Abbott received her PhD in English and American Literature from New York University in 2000. She lives in New York City.
Publicity tour: New York, Boston, Phoenix, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Publicity contact: Marlena Bittner, marlena.bittner@hbgusa.com
