We Could Be Anyone
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 26 may 2026
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- USD 11.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 11.99
Descripción editorial
Two teen con-artists must execute an almost impossible scam at an exclusive mansion in this thriller that's White Lotus meets Mexican Gothic - for teens.
Lola and I grew up hearing that we could become anything, but our parents hadn’t meant it the way gringo parents did. They meant it as a warning.
Lola and Lisandro are actors during Hollywood’s Golden Age, but you won’t see them on any silver screen. Instead, these siblings use their talents to scam the rich and famous out of their ill-begotten cash. They have their act down to a science: Lola plays the tragic ghost who haunts the mansions of the wealthy, and Lisandro plays the brave spiritualist who will help her soul find peace. For a small fee, of course.
The siblings have their sights set on their next target: The Coterie, the opulent estate of newspaper tycoon Bixby Fairfax and his famous mistress Blythe Bell. A score this big will allow them to move… well, anywhere but here. But this job requires them to do something they’ve never done before: switch roles. And as strange things keep happening at The Coterie… things that even Lola and Lisandro can’t explain.
As they are drawn deeper into The Coterie’s gleaming façade and tensions rise between brother and sister, one question looms over them. Will they be able to pull off their act? Or will this be their last performance?
Brimming with Anne-Marie McLemore’s signature atmospheric writing, We Could Be Anyone is perfect for readers who love:
• Queer Romance
• Con Artists
• Old Money Glamor
• Myths and Folklore
• Ryan La Sala books
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mexican siblings in a small West Coast town in the 1920s seek revenge on a robber baron by plotting an elaborate con in this lean and tightly wound supernatural novel from McLemore (Flawless Girls). Sixteen-year-old Lola Bernal and her brother Lisandro, 17, make their living by staging hauntings; Lola acts as a ghost, terrorizing their mark in increasingly elaborate ways until the mark pays a young spiritualist, played by Lisandro, to exorcise the apparition. Unbeknownst to Lisandro, Lola has a personal vendetta against wealthy media mogul Bixby Fairfax and sets her sights on the Coterie, his massive estate, as the venue for their next haunting. While Lisandro struggles to reconcile his growing attraction to the troubled Fairfax heir, the depths of Lola's grudge against Bixby appear to be painfully transforming her flesh into leaves and vines. As the brother-sister duo delve into the origins surrounding the Fairfax family and the Coterie, they sink deeper into the secrets they keep from each other. Via lived-in-feeling and fully fleshed-out alternating perspectives, McLemore infuses a cathartic revenge tale with allusions to Ovid's Metamorphoses and Nahuatl folklore. Balancing depictions of searing rage and the costs of unfettered greed against a gorgeously rendered backdrop enriched by instances of queer love and acceptance, lush prose and deft character writing intertwine for a spectacular offering. Ages 13–up.
