Lie Until It’s True

Gr 8 Up–Four friends, two dead bodies, and one vengeful ghost await readers in this second installment of Weaver’s “Like Me Block You” series. Amanda Pruitt is finally back in Colorado at her aunt’s famously haunted mountaintop hotel for the summer after three years away. She’s ready to turn her life around after getting her sister arrested for a crime she didn’t commit, then secretly broadcasting the trial on TikTok. Her plan? Help friend (and potential flame) Vince Sanchez-Reyes exonerate his mother, who was found at the hotel holding a literal smoking gun by the body of local billionaire Royden Das. Amanda, Vince, and their friends Mallory and Cole will go to great lengths to discover the truth—including inviting a ghost hunter reality show to the hotel. The four, all of whom present white except for dark-haired, brown-skinned Vince, face a tangled web of lies and deceit that could sink or save the fortunes of the Summit Hotel as well as the Sanchez-Reyes family. When a second body is discovered on the grounds and Amanda becomes the main suspect, pressure mounts to get to the bottom of things once and for all.