Tap & Gown An Ivy League Novel

Top secret societies . . . bizarre initiation rites . . . campus love triangles . . . political shenanigans . . . Diana Peterfreund has dazzled readers and critics alike with her Ivy League novels, hailed as "impossible to put down"(Publishers Weekly)and "witty and endearing"(New York Observer).In this final installment, Eli University senior Amy "Bugaboo" Haskel and her fellow Diggers are preparing to face real life in worlds far beyond the hallowed halls of Eli University. For Amy the countdown to graduation has begun, and suddenly the perfect ending to a perfectly iconoclastic Eli career is slipping from her grasp. Her new boyfriend's been made an offer he just can't refuse. Her fellowship applications haven't even been filed. And the young woman she's chosen to take her place in Rose & Gravethe country's most powerful and notorious secret societyseems to come complete with a secret life already intact. Lunging toward the finish line, Amy finds trouble around every corner, from society intrigues and unlikely stalkers to former flames and mandatory science credits. Surely it couldn't get worse . . . until Initiation Night explodes into a terrifying scene and into a last test of wits for a young woman just trying to make it out of the Ivy League in one piece.

Diana Peterfreund graduated from Yale University in 2001 with degrees in geology and literature. A former food critic, she now lives in Washington, DC with her husband and writes full-time. Tap & Gown is her fourth novel.