Lauren Myracle brings her keen understanding of teen dynamics to a hypnotic horror story of twisted friendship. When Blisss hippie parents leave the commune and dump her at the home of her aloof grandmother in a tony Atlanta neighborhood, its like being set down on an alien planet. The only guide nave Bliss has to her new environment is what shes seen on The Andy Griffith Show. But Mayberry is poor preparation for Crestview Academy, an elite school where the tensions of the present and the dark secrets of the past threaten to simmer into violence. Openhearted, nave Bliss is happy to be friends with anyone. Thats not the way it has ever worked at Crestview, and soon Bliss is at the center of a struggle for power between three girlstwo living and one long dead.