02291cam a2200481 i 4500 1193946438 TxAuBib 20240403120000.0 200128t20212020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020002138 9781250759153 1250759153 9781250783516 1250783518 (OCoLC)1136966120 TxAuBib rda Gosling, Victoria, author. Before the ruins : a novel / Victoria Gosling. First edition. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. ©2020. 274 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David - charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game - half treasure hunt, half friendly deception - begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal."--Publisher. 20240403. Teenagers Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Abandoned houses Fiction. Necklaces Fiction. Women alcoholics Fiction. Thieves Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Secrecy. Adolescents Romans, nouvelles, etc. Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc. Secret Romans, nouvelles, etc. Friendships. homoit Suspense thriller fiction. Suspense fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)