Bøger af Daisy Jordan

A plane ticket to New York with an anonymous note: "Please come. I need to talk to you and I have a surprise for you." A scandalous engagement. A long-sought-after answer that was once of ultimate importance but will now have unforeseen consequences. Two nearly decade-long relationships dissolving in hours. Sightings of a little girl who may or may not exist. A photograph titled From Budapest With Love. An international murder with ties surprisingly close to home. It's not exactly what Lorylyn Porter, Kylar Landell, Jansen Montgomery, and Zibby Ainsley had in mind when they came up with the motto "new year, new lives, new guys." But as Lorylyn, Zibby, and Zibby's husband DJ move to Denver and Kylar and Jansen settle in Chicago, they will all encounter the unexpected. From a family emergency to the fallout of an emergency room disaster, from a letter with a shocking return address to a troubling analysis of a psychological test, each girl's life will irreversibly change in a matter of days. And while "new guys" isn't so accurate, except maybe for Lorylyn's roommate Taylor, who consistently dates two or three guys at once, it is definitely a new year and a new life for each of the girls...a year in which strangers will become fast friends, and the oldest of friends will suddenly find themselves little more than strangers.

Irelan University in Irvine, Indiana, with its whitewashed, medieval-looking buildings and air-conditioned dorms where everyone lives in suites, seems like the ideal small school in almost every way. And Lorylyn Porter loves the college lifestyle...staying up all night, sleeping all day, partying during the week...plus, she couldn't have asked for better suitemates. The four of them - Lorylyn, Zibby, Kylar, and Jansen - quickly become an inseparable group, dubbing themselves the Weird-Name Whores and their suite The Whorehouse. So far Irelan is everything the four girls could've hoped for and exactly what each of them needs it to be.For Zibby, it's an escape from her parents' country-club lifestyle and the drama of a small town where "high school never ends." For Kylar, it's a new scene...a different setting from the college town where she grew up and has been going to college parties for years. For Jansen, it's 800 miles from parents she doesn't talk to and wants to be nothing like. And for Lorylyn, who has brought with her secrets and heartache her new friends know nothing about, it was the hardest decision of her life to come here but the only choice she could see. Now, two hours from the only people who might understand a secret she hasn't told anyone, Lorylyn is surrounded by other secrets as well, those of her suitemates and those of the boys next door. Half-told stories, late-night hookups, unspoken feelings, a case of pills disguised as birth control, acts put on to keep up appearances, unexplained relationships, the mysterious "Jenna," and four rings and four earrings that each hold meaning known only to a few. And then there is the deepest secret of all, twisted beneath the surface of the past and part of a puzzle so deceptive that those who hold the missing pieces do so unknowingly and the only person who understands the danger of the answer isn't scared enough to ask the questions that would put the pieces together.

Jansen has long resented her conceited parents, their money-and-social-standing-mean-everything attitudes, and the pretentious tennis-club and Hamptons-parties lifestyle they push on her. But after learning her mom, Scarlett, tried to murder Clint's mom, Cindy, Jansen's resentment turns to a hatred she has no idea how she'll conceal. As she, Clint, Jason, and Hersh reel in the wake of their discovery, everything feels surreal to Jansen. The inane love lives of her school friends, nights out at Red Sulfur, the dangerous need for a high that continuously requires more and more stimulation to attain, and even the sordid past of the Circles of Eight. It is only with the boys she feels like her true self, especially in the world she and Jason have created when it's just the two of them, a mystical yet very real Paradise, their "best ever."But when a long-awaited revelation hits Jansen out of the blue, she snaps out of her foggy reverie and, along with Jason, throws herself deeper into uncovering the mysteries of the Circles of Eight. The trail leads away from her mom's murder attempt fifteen years ago and takes Jansen and Jason back ten years earlier, to the childhood of Jason's mom, Corinne. Despite warnings they are opening a treacherous Pandora's box, Jansen and Jason set out to connect the clues littered across Corinne's and the Circles' intertwining pasts. An old diary hidden in a bookshelf, a boy named Robert, a letter that can't be found, an unknown object of dire importance, a forgotten summer house in Vermont. And, ultimately, questions Corinne seems determined to leave unanswered.

In May 2007, two photographs drastically changed the course of Hilton Joliet's life. Now, twenty months later, the wild ride hasn't stopped. It's a new year of jetting off to a different location each week, hanging with the best tennis players in the world, taking the scandalous pictures of them her boss at Game Set Match magazine loves her for, and finally starting to work on her book, which will document one year in her life through pictures and places and be called Living in a Postcard, a term Hilton and her best friend Jill coined to represent living in the moments they would die for. For Hilton, that's what 2009 is all about. After spending the off-season adjusting to the end of her seven-year relationship with her boyfriend Luke, who is still her roommate, Hilton rejoins the tennis tour ready to have the time of her life with her two favorite players, bad-boy-turned-actually-kind-of-funny-hookup-buddy Haidin Bayliss and her best friend on tour Tanner Bruin, the guy who might be perfect for her if she were a little more over Luke and he were ready for something more serious than a six-month joyride. Sundance, Utah, the opening location for Hilton's book, provides a week of hot tub parties and laughter-filled twists and tumbles down the slopes. But it's not long before the twists and tumbles look dreadfully different. Hilton's no-strings-attached fun with Haidin takes a confusing turn, Tanner drops a bomb about his girlfriend Austin, and Hilton withholds the biggest tennis story of the year from GSM in a failed attempt to protect a friend. In the midst of her boss's fury, one player's maddening slump, a season-halting injury, an encounter with a ghost from the past, and the disturbing moment of realizing the actual postcard that is her life no longer matches the image in her head, Hilton manages to find another explosive story that will save her job. But all along she's been missing the most unexpected, and yet maybe the most obvious, story of all, one that will once again drastically change her life.

Freshman year is over. Summer is here. Jill and Hillary aren't fighting anymore, Lorylyn is back with Brady and happier than ever, and Jill has her new best friends Hilton and Todd too - Hilton, whom she endlessly admires and wants to be more like, and Todd, with whom she's crazily in love. After a somewhat rollercoaster year, things are looking pretty great. And on the last day of school, Hilton tells Jill an outrageous, stunning secret about her relationship with Reed, then at Landon's party that night, Jill gets to kiss Todd in spin the bottle. And just like that, the tone for the summer is set. Sunny days on a sparkling blue lake...an overnight stay in a hotel with the boys...trips to Cedar Point, the Bahamas, and California...the thrill of romance in the air...sneaking out late at night...one girl's "first time"...wild nights at Landon's. The lingering high off all of it. Giggling, stories, excitement, inside jokes. Anticipation of what's to come. For Jill, Hilton, Lorylyn, and Hillary, it's their dream summer. Everything is picture-perfect; nothing can go wrong. But for some of the girls, what's to come is nothing they would have wanted to anticipate. For things haven't been as perfect as they've seemed. It's just that the girls have ignored the signs. Signs they could have seen all along, had they been willing to look. But desperate to believe in the glimmering illusions of the summer, they close their eyes to what they don't want to see, what they don't want to believe. To the ominous gut instinct that everything is just a little too perfect, a little too good to be true. To the foreboding premonition that it won't last, that control is somehow slipping away. Because everything that seems too good to be true...probably is.

One night at a dive bar in the East Village, best friends Jansen, Jason, Hersh, and Clint create a secret society. One with a fake past full of murders, ghosts, and family secrets. A joke, meant to freak out their school friends, who will no doubt fall for it. Because in the single-sex private schools of Manhattan's über-wealthy Upper East Side, where GPAs and coke highs are through the roof, last night's mind-numbing party is this morning's eyeroll-inducingly exaggerated story, and relationships burn out faster than the cigarette between your fingers, induction to a secret society feels like a natural rite of passage.The eerie notes left in Jansen's, Jason's, Hersh's, and Clint's bedrooms are the first clue their joke has hit too close to a very real, and very hidden, history of Manhattan. In a secret room only blocks from their penthouses, the mystery, one that began with long-dead twins named Anabelle and Jonathan, starts to unravel. And after a cab chase, fruitless attempts at an impossible-to-crack code, and the offhand discovery of a book stacked on a desk in a backwater South Carolina bedroom comes the chilling realization their "joke" has also hit too close to home. Because as it turns out, murders, ghosts, and family secrets are the hidden history of their own parents.

The emotional wreckage of a failed proposal. A broken ankle. A wild bachelorette party at a gay bar. A jaw-dropping exposé on one of the world's top tennis players. That was May in Paris in 2009, when the tennis tour landed in the city for its annual French Open fortnight. Hilton Joliet, a photographer for the magazine Game Set Match and a friend of several players on tour, was at the center of it all. And in the two months since Paris, life has continued to serve up surprises.A month ago in Vero Beach, Florida, Hilton told her best friend on tour Tanner Bruin she's in love with him. Five nights ago in Indianapolis, they kissed, but Tanner still doesn't know how he feels about her. Last night, Hilton knocked on the Indy hotel door of another friend on tour, her former hookup buddy Haidin Bayliss, to celebrate his latest tennis win. The door was opened by Haidin's lingerie-clad ex-girlfriend and self-described Hilton enemy, bitchy, outrageous A-list actress Aubrey Gage. This morning, Hilton is 600 miles away in Kansas, driving across the country with her ex-boyfriend and still-best-friend Luke Windler, from whom she fears her life will soon go down a very different road. In ten months, the next French Open will bring the launch party for Hilton's photography book Living in a Postcard, a divorce less shocking than the events of the marriage preceding it, two pregnancy announcements, a fake girlfriend on a fake trip who may actually have gone MIA, and a connection between another of the world's top tennis players and a year-old unsolved murder. Until then, the seductive dance that is the tour lifestyle...one that draws Hilton and her friends together one week and drops them in different corners of the world the next...will swirl on, clouding the air with questions and setting the stage for the answers only May in Paris can reveal.

For Jill Sherer, high school's shaping up to be better than she could've imagined. From the first week of cheerleading practice, she and her best friends Hillary and Lorylyn are included in a circle of popular girls who open the door to a world of exciting social possibilities. And on the first day of school, Jill meets Todd - hot, smart, athletic, funny, and a flirt - the boy of her dreams. But things with Todd don't go as Jill had hoped, she and Hillary drift apart, and her circle of friends is shaken by Lorylyn's new boyfriend. Desperate to get things back to the way they were, Jill, along with her new best friend Hilton - a gorgeous, intriguing girl who is the link between her old friends and her new ones - anxiously awaits the one thing that never changes...Landon Kessler's parties. There, on a lake outside town, everyone comes together time after time for dancing, drinking, skinny-dipping, and spin the bottle. Spin the bottle...the game that leads to new loves, bitter jealousies, betrayals, and breakups. The game that teasingly draws the circle of friends together, only to rip them apart in unforeseeable ways. But they keep coming back, some with hope, some with malevolence, some with amused interest, to be part of the saga that unfolds party after party, month after month...

Only four other people (besides Robert) know of the existence of what I took from the Mistress Suite that day, and three of them are dead."...doesn't know about Anabelle.""It is coming true."Words. Some written in a diary in 1973, others tidbits of whispered conversations. They're the final puzzle pieces in the deeply hidden, never-recorded-in-the-Magic-8-Ball history of the Circles of Eight, a secret society whose current members may practically claw each other's eyes out in their battle to reign as Master and Mistress, but whose past is built on witchcraft, betrayal, and murder. And those words are the only clues Jansen and Jason have.Warned away from the Vermont house but issued a challenge involving the biggest deception and illusion to ever hit the Circles, Jansen and Jason embark on a chase for answers and inspiration. From a tiny apartment in Paris to a nameless dance studio housed in a former Bowery flophouse, from the secret rooms of some of New York's oldest buildings to the city's exclusive and elusive underground club scene, and, finally, from a long-abandoned subway station to a deserted insane asylum, they, along with Hersh, Clint, Kella, and Taylan, attempt to rewrite the past, present, and future of the Circles...using spells, ghosts, and the Circles' founders...mysterious twins Jonathan and Anabelle Townsend, thought dead for decades.In the aftermath, Jansen, Jason, and the others must come to terms with a new reality, test the boundaries of their friendships, and decide what the future holds. And Jansen and Jason must answer what could be the most defining question of their lives...what will Paradise look like now?

A chance encounter in a Rome hotel, two tremendously damaging photographs, and Hilton Joliet's life is instantly altered. Previously working a dead-end job as an assistant in a portrait studio, she is now a freelance photographer for Game Set Match magazine, "the Us Weekly of tennis," as she calls it.Thrown rapidly into a jet-setting life of world-class tennis, the best seats at the best matches, and trailing the hottest young tennis stars and their model and actress girlfriends, Hilton, a former tennis player herself, can't imagine a more fun job or a better way to jump-start her career while her boyfriend Luke finishes law school.As Hilton spends more and more time away from home, grows closer and closer to Tanner Bruin-the world-ranked No. 3 player on whom she's always had a huge crush-and becomes more and more hated by Aubrey Gage-the actress girlfriend of world-ranked No. 6 player Haidin Bayliss-Luke keeps a secret from her that could drastically change their six-year relationship. It is through Hilton's discovery of that secret, her love for the tennis tour, and her front-row glimpse into its most high-profile relationships that she starts to see how love doesn't always mean near as much as she thought it did.

The summer before senior year. Lazy afternoons in Jill's pool, an all-out TP-ing war, wild parties at Landon's. Friendship, jealousy, revenge, love. Hillary is more into Dirk than ever, and even though this summer is bittersweet for Hilton and Lorylyn because of Landon's and Brady's imminent departures, both girls agree their relationships are the best they've ever been. Not everything is perfect though...Todd's parents' divorce is turning nastier by the day, and Jill desperately clings to increasingly infrequent moments with him as his bond with Melanie grows more intense. As hot sunny days roll into warm breezy nights, the date that's been set for months draws closer and closer...the night of the goodbye party. The circle of friends has been coming to Landon's for three years to dance, drink, skinny-dip, and play spin the bottle, and on August 18, it will happen for the last time. And it's going to be the biggest and craziest and best party of all... Or so they think. For at this party, the shattering secret that has been kept hidden for three years will be revealed, in an unforeseeable moment that will rock the lives of every person who's been a regular at Landon's over the years. It will destroy their beliefs, perceptions, and illusions, and it will break the circle of friends forever. And as the ex-seniors go off to college, Jill, Hilton, Lorylyn, Hillary, Todd, Dirk, and Bennett are left to pick up the pieces and try to salvage their senior year...

When the guy Lorylyn Porter thought was the love of her life tells her he's engaged, her world collapses. It doesn't matter that she married somebody else five years ago, or that she still keeps in touch with a fling from a summer on Martha's Vineyard, or that she fantasizes about another guy she might love more than all of them.As she fights to move on from the news, write a dissertation on her own theory of love, and become the person she wants to be, her past and present love stories collide alongside those of her roommates: Zibby, who's had two weddings, but only one her family knows about; Jansen, whose developing relationship with one of her closest guy friends will force her to choose either what they have or a future that might not exist with the most important guy in her life; and Kylar, who loves three guys but can't seem to get things to work with any of them.Amid ghosts from the past, conflicting feelings, and blurred lines, the girls will discover that no matter how much you love a guy, sometimes that heartbreaking moment of clarity comes along when you realize the best part of the relationship is over, and you don't want the rest of his life.

At the end of sophomore year, Jill, Hilton, and Lorylyn made a pact to live their lives to the fullest over the summer, and they set out to do exactly that. As Brady and Brooke take a whirlwind tour through Spain and Portugal, the girls, now honed and accomplished liars, spend more and more drunken nights at Landon's and feel less and less guilty about deceiving their parents. Hilton's relationship with Landon takes on a new intensity. Jill, devastated by the gap between herself and Todd that's been created by his relationship with Melanie, gets caught up in a fast and reckless summer fling with a flirtatious, charming boy. Lorylyn struggles with her still very-present feelings for Brady, and Hillary appears suddenly and inexplicably bored with Dirk, although she claims it's really no big deal. While everyone outwardly parties the summer away and puts on the pretense of being happy, tumultuous forces with the power to change everything are stirring and building behind the scenes...Brady's constant thoughts of Lorylyn, Kara and Andy's budding relationship, Melanie's growing jealousy of Jill, and destructive, devastating secrets kept by one person and by groups of people-secrets no one else could even begin to imagine.