Nan Christopher Yates’premye woman, Black Chalk, a group of six friends at Oxford University begin to play an elaborate variant of Truth or Dare which devolves into a vicious struggle, with tragic results. In Nina Revoyr’roman an, Lost Canyon, four backpackers embark on a trip in the Sierra Nevada that quickly becomes a disaster. Maggie Mitchell’pa Pretty Is: A Novel is a fiercely imagined fiction debut in which two young women face what happened the summer they were twelve, when a handsome stranger abducted them. Nina De Gramont’pa The Last September, set in the desolate autumn beauty of Cape Cod, combines murder mystery and coming-of-age.