BODY COUNT
SUNDAE VALENTINE OWES A DEBT TO A MONSTER.
When she was eleven years old, she met a man at the bottom of a motel pool in Wildwood who offered her three wishes. Sundae didn’t know there was a bloody price for each—or that the third wish, the one she still hasn’t made, will cost her life.
Sundae barely escaped, and in the seven years since, she’s done everything in her power to move on. Now she’s head cheerleader, prom queen, and soon-to-be winner of the Slut Cup, the squad’s secret competition to amass the highest prom-weekend body count.
When the football team moves the after party to the Jersey Shore, Sundae has no choice but to return to the scene of her sun-drenched nightmares. At least the risk starts to feel worthwhile after she meets Lia, a dark-eyed guitarist with dreams of stardom whose band is playing a show on the boardwalk.
What she doesn’t know is that Lia is as hungry for wishes as Sundae was seven years ago. Hungry enough to unleash the darkness still lurking in Wildwood.
Now there are eyes like silver coins watching from the shadows, and teeth like a rusty saw glinting in the neon light. Because Sundae still owes a debt. And whatever it takes, whoever he has to kill, this time the monster is determined to get what he’s owed.
Codie Crowley, author of Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch, returns with another coming-of-rage hotgirl horror skewering a society that expects girls to be objects of desire with no hunger of their own.