What would you kill for?

The New York Times bestselling author of Night Film spins a twisted web in this masterful YA psychological thriller about the dark legacy of a notorious games designer.

A seemingly ordinary high school student. A mysterious summer internship. And a legendary games designer, now dead.

When an ad for an internship with the Louisiana Veda Foundation appears, Arcadia 'Dia' Gannon rushes to apply. Veda's game-making empire, Darkly, was renowned for its ingenious and terrifying games back in the day and Dia is as obsessed with them as anyone.

The remaining games are priced like highly sought-after works of art, with the rarest and most notorious commanding tens of millions of dollars at auction. Now, Dia is thrust into the enigmatic heart of the operation. But who are these other interns? Why do they all seem to have something to hide? And why was she really chosen? It soon becomes clear that this summer will be the most twisted Darkly game of all.

Marisha Pessl is the New York Times bestselling author of Night Film, Special Topics in Calamity Physics and the YA novel, Neverworld Wake. Her first novel was chosen as one of the 10 best books of the year by the New York Times and was the winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Award. Originally from North Carolina, Marisha lives with her husband and three daughters in New York. Her books have been translated into over 30 languages.