❝Every crush I've had was just like cake. They were all different in their own ways, and extremely delectable in small amounts. You're always tempted to eat more but as soon as you give into your urges- the cake becomes bad for you.❞ - Theodore Anglien. Zachary "Zach" Webblin was like a slice of carrot cake. Underrated, but secretly delicious, a sweet-spicy mix with a little bit of nuttiness laced in. Strawberries and cream cake is light, buttery, and you can't help but keep wanting more. It has the perfect amount of sweetness and is unexpectedly soft, just like Isaiah Blazes. Ryder Coldstone could only be described as a black forest cake. It may seem a bit daunting from the outside, considering the daring flavour combination. But as soon as you get a taste of the slightly sour cherry chocolate flavour - you may think twice. Lemon cake is a bit of an acquired taste, despite how appealing it looks from the outside. When you cut it open, though, you realise it is much sourer than it seemed. Jake Brooks was a perfect example of that shiny exterior, horrible interior concept. Red velvet cake is chocolatey without being overbearing, scrumptious to a select group of people, bright and very colourful. It was the one cake that made Theodore question whether all cakes were really bad for you. It was like Nicolás "Nico" Alvarez, without a doubt.

Eliott King's sister is dead, and so are her boyfriend and her best friend, found dead in a river, blood leaking from all over. Then more people start showing up in the river dead, and something is seriously wrong - seriously, seriously wrong. Most of the town turns immediately to blaming a serial killer, pointing fingers at the neighbors they hate and the ones that hate them, or some freak animal, blaming the same neighbors' dogs and saying they have rabies. But Eliott's grandmother doesn't think so, and neither does Ezra Terrell, the unbearably cute kid next door, and neither does Mei Xiao, the recent transplant from China. The four try to find out what is behind these deaths, but in doing so, they stir up old conflicts that run deeply in Troy, Vermont - conflicts that could kill them and everything and everyone they care about and love.