Ali Greenleaf and Blythe Jensen couldn't be more different.

Ali is sweet, bitingly funny, and just a little naive. Blythe is beautiful, terrifying, and the most popular girl in school. They've never even talked to each other, until a party when Ali decides she'll finally make her move on Sean Nessel, her longtime crush and the soccer team's superstar. But Sean pushes Ali farther than she wants to go. When she resists--he rapes her.

In her searing, empowering debut novel, Hayley Krischer tells the story of what happened that night, and how it shaped Ali and Blythe forever. Both girls are survivors in their own ways, and while their friendship might not be built to last, it's one that empowers each of them to find justice on their own terms.

Hayley Krischer is a writer and journalist. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, where she covers women, teenage girls, celebrities, and cultural trends. Her work has also appeared in Marie Claire, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and more. She lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with her husband, two kids, one dog, and three cats.

Farah Milleris the director of content strategy for Parenting at The New York Times. Prior to joining The Times she led product content strategy for video at Facebook and was the managing editor of Instagram's community team. Farah was also an executive editor at The Huffington Post, where she was the founding editor of HuffPost Parents, and a lead editor at Oprah.com. Earlier in her career, Farah ran digital media for Knopf and Pantheon at Random House, where she produced websites and marketing campaigns for bestselling books and authors. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband, a chef, and their two daughters.

Hayley Krischer, "Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf"