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Out April 15, 2025 from Penguin Teen

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What if living your most authentic life leaves you dead?

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​About You Belong To Me

 

The Substance meets Girl in Pieces, in this new YA psychological thriller exploring the dark secrets of the wellness and beauty world, brimming with sapphic romance, class exploration, and friendship clashes.

Frances Bean has always been content living life on the perimeter. Until she gets paired up for a class project with rich and popular Julia, daughter of famous wellness guru Deena Patterson. The “magic” skincare products, healing sound baths, and extravagant parties of Deena’s company DEEP never really interested Frances before, who wears the badge of goth outcast and bookworm proudly. But face time with the girl she has been crushing on for years is starting to give her a new outlook. 

When Frances gets an exclusive invite to a DEEP event, she is blown away by the beauty and luxury of Julia’s world and the group’s focus on empowering girls to be their most true selves surprisingly strikes a chord. Before long Frances finds herself invested in DEEP, a whirlwind romance with Julia, and a future that feels hopeful.  
But when an infamous DEEP party takes a dark turn, Frances wonders if the allure of being a part of Julia’s life was actually just a deadly distraction…

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Praise for
You Belong To Me

"Midsommar meets the wellness space with this queer YA thriller about loving too hard, trust, and the dangers of falling for a façade. A perfect mix of suspense, romance, and a dash of bone chilling horror, that will captivate any reader." 

Raegan Revord, Actor/Author

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“Raw and pulsing, this is a novel that understands and embraces the complexities of being a teenage girl. Utterly transfixing.”

—Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of The Counselors 

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"A dark, gripping thriller about a young girl manipulated into joining a wellness cult run by her crush's mother,You Belong To Me has tense, perfect pacing that builds to an explosive, murderous climax. I could not put this book down." 

Liz Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Agathas series

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"Krischer spins a tense and fast-paced plot full of ’80s and ’90s references and allusions to the #MeToo movement and Jeffrey Epstein scandal as a cautionary tale... this page-turning novel highlights the way gaslighting and peer pressure can have devastating consequences."

Publisher's Weekly

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“Intrigue abounds in this story that’s full of thrills and atmosphere…” 

—Kirkus

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