From the megabestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of Americas first celebrity serial killer. January 15 1978 is a night of promise excitement and desire. A serial killers murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldnt be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State Universitys campus in Tallahassee. That night Pamela Schumacher president of the sorority makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound she makes the fateful decision to investigate. What she finds outside her bedroom door is a scene of implausible violence--two of her sisters dead; two others maimed. On the other side of the country in Seattle Tina Cannon has found peace after years of hardship. A chance encounter brings twenty-five-year-old Ruth Wachowsky into her life and they forge an instant connection. But then Ruth goes missing from Lake Sammamish State Park in broad daylight the same day as another young woman surrounded by thousands of beachgoers. Both vanish without a trace. Tina is convinced Ruth was a target of the man the papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer. When she learns of the massacre in Tallahassee Tina is convinced its him again. She rushes to Florida on a collision course with Pamela--and one last impending tragedy. Bright Young Women tells the story of two women from opposite sides of the country who forge a sisterhood in grief and in the fervent pursuit of justice. Toggling between those terrifying days in 1978 and a letter that brings them together in the present this is a novel that flips the script on the oft-perpetuated glorification of a sadistic but ultimately average man and instead turns the spotlight on the exceptional women he targeted.
