Your Lonely Nights Are Over
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Publisher Description
Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass in which two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school’s Queer Club.
Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable.
From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They’re beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they’re always ready to call out their fellow students. But they’ve never faced a bigger threat than surviving senior year, when Mr. Sandman, a famous, never-caught serial killer emerges from a long retirement—and his hunting ground is their school Queer Club.
As evidence and bodies begin piling up and suspicion points at Dearie and Cole, they will need to do whatever it takes to unmask the real killer before they and the rest of Queer Club are taken down. But they’re not getting away from the killer without a fight.
Along the way, they must confront dark truths hidden beneath the surface of their small desert community. When the world is stacked against them and every flop they know is a suspect, can Dearie and Cole stop Mr. Sandman’s rampage? Or will their lonely nights soon be over . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two gay besties are framed for the murders of fellow queer students in this audacious thriller by Sass (The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers). Arizona Stone Grove High School senior Frankie Dearie, who cues as white, feels as if he's the only student at school not obsessed with his classmates' latest true crime docuseries binge-watch about Mr. Sandman, a still-on-the-lam serial killer from the 1970s. The obsession has even ensnared his jock best friend Cole Cardoso, who is Latine. But discussion surrounding the show stops feeling lighthearted when Dearie and Cole are accused of sending Queer Club members texts that mimic Mr. Sandman's calling card. The pair are determined to prove that the messages are a joke from someone who's trying to set them up, but their pursuit is derailed when they stumble upon two Queer Club students garroted in the killer's style. And as the body count grows, so too does evidence pointing to the friends as the culprits. Dearie and Cole's steadfast devotion to each other provides a grounding backbone to the hair-raising chills. In this enthusiastic homage to queer youth and friendship, Sass embraces quintessential campy slasher tropes and persuasively blends snarky humor with suspenseful horror. Ages 14–up.
