Bill Hauser – illustratör

Back in grade school, Maxie and Rick were best friends. Rick would design crazy inventions, and Maxie, the artistic one, would draw them. Then something terrible happened to Rick, and he vanished from her school and her life. Years later, he shows up at Maxie''s high school. In some ways he''s the same person she once knew. But in other ways - frightening ones - he''s very, very different . . .

"To you the idea to kidnap Chase Dobson might seem like a mistake. But to us... we were just trying to stop him from being so...evil. We just...we had to stop him. No one helps kids like us. Not at my school. We aren''t the important kids. We knew it wouldn''t stop unless we stopped it ourselves." Katie, Nate, and Renata had no farther to fall down the social ladder. But when they hit bottom, they found each other. Together, they wanted to change things. To stop the torment. So they made a plan. One person seemed to have everyone''s secrets—and all the power. If they could stop him...But secrets are complicated, powerful things. They are hard to keep. And even a noble plan to stop a bully can go horribly wrong.