Hotlanta 2 by Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller | this is POINT books

by Denene Millner & Mitzi Miller

Date Published: October 2008
Pages: 272

Description

Twins Sydney and Lauren Duke are the privileged princesses of the Atlanta social scene. But an unsolved murder mystery keeps drawing them back to the wrong side of town. There, wild child Lauren has to risk everything to protect the boy who's stolen her heart. And prim-and-proper Sydney discovers details about their family's past that no one-least of all the girls' fiercely guarded mother-wants to face. When the twins realize what they're up against, can they deal with the dark, dangerous truth.

Sneak Peek

"'Five, four, three, two,' Sydney Duke muttered under her breath as the last seconds of AP Global History slowly ticked away. The bell barely sounded before she and her new brown crocodile Bottega Veneta shoulder bag were halfway to the door. After the last class of the day on a Friday, Sydney was more than ready to leave the Korean War to the few remaining veterans and get the hek up out of Dodge."

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“Five, four, three, two,” Sydney Duke muttered under her breath as the last seconds of AP Global History slowly ticked away. The bell barely sounded before she and her new brown crocodile Bottega Veneta shoulder bag were halfway to the door. After the last class of the day on a Friday, Sydney was more than ready to leave the Korean War to the few remaining veterans and get the hek up out of Dodge. Not to mention, since the huge Thanksgiving holiday party she and her twin sister were planning at the family’s Lake Lanier vacation house was exactly a month away, she and her best friends had some serious dress shopping to get into at Phipps Plaza.

“Um, may I have a word with you please, Miss Duke?” Her teacher’s rhetorical question brought Sydney’s attempted escape to a screeching halt.

“Yes, ma’am,” Sydney responded automatically as she covered the involuntary cringe with her best fake smile before turning around.

“I just wanted to make sure that everything was okay,” the well-dressed historian started as the last of Sydney’s classmates headed eagerly out the door. “You’ve seemed a little, um, distracted in class this week.”

Considering the love of her life had just played her out by cheating with her twin sister’s scandalous former best friend, Dara, Sydney found her instructor’s word choice a tad ironic. “No, Dr. Pitts, everything is just fine,” she replied, unconsciously twisting the diamond stud in her right ear.

“Oh, okay, ‘cause I heard that you and Marcus were no longer…”

For a brief moment, Sydney was sure a hole would open up in the floor and swallow her alive. It was bad enough that the entire student body couldn’t stop gossiping about the huge blow-up at the Homecoming Benefit Gala where the mild mannered (and extremely appearance conscience) school sweetheart, Sydney Duke, flipped out and basically told Brookhaven’s infallible golden boy, Marcus Green, to kiss her butt at the top of her lungs. But now the faculty was up in the mix, too? If she wasn’t before, Sydney Duke was now officially tapped out.