The Favorites: A Campus Novel

A graduate student competes her way into a selective Law and Literature course and plots a takedown of its popular professor in this provocative campus novel about privilege, power, and obsession.

＂A standout dark academia thriller, with shades of Donna Tartt’s modern classic The Secret History and Emerald Fennell’s revenge fantasy film Promising Young Woman.＂ --BookPage

Most students would kill to be selected for the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University. A tightknit group of the brightest third-years, the cohort affords the ultimate campus status and access to the school’s most lauded alumni. But for Jessie Mooney, acceptance into the class is about much more: It’s her chance to get close to charismatic professor Jay Crane. Since the moment she discovered their secret relationship, Jessie’s been convinced Crane is to blame for the events leading to her sister’s death, and she’ll do anything to hold him accountable.

From late-night parties to the intensely competitive classroom, Jessie carefully plots her every move within this inner circle with one goal in mind--to earn the coveted position as Crane’s ＂favorite.＂ But when she finally gains his trust, attracting the other students’ envy and suspicion, the truth becomes darkly twisted. Is it justice Jessie craves, or revenge? And what does she stand to lose if she gets her way?

Shimmering with tension, The Favorites explores the ways that love, desire, and anger reveal the best, and worst, of us.