When celebrity biographer, Phoebe Hall, is first dumped by her live in boyfriend of 4 years and then accused of plagiarism, she's ready to escape the Manhattan lifestyle that she had come to adore. For this reason, she jumped at the chance to teach a journalism class at Lyle University in Lyle, Pennsylvania. Her best friend, Glenda Johns, is the head of the university and delivers a personal invitation. It seems the perfect way for her to get her life back in some sort of order and come up with the idea for her next book.

At first, that's exactly what Phoebe's new situation turns out to be. However, after only a couple of months in residence at Lyle, a student disappears. Phoebe had briefly met Lily Mack shortly before she vanished. They had shared Phoebe's umbrella on a rainy walk to the campus. During that walk, Lily had shared a secret with Phoebe that led her to wonder later if it had anything to do with Lily's disappearance.

In the midst of this investigation, Glenda has heard rumblings of a secret society on campus and she asks Phoebe to please discreetly look into it to see what she can find out. Since Phoebe is particularly good at getting people to talk to her due to her interviewing techniques she's used in the past for research, she readily agrees. There's another reason that Phoebe is interested in exposing this group, if there is one, but it's a secret that very few people know about her.

As Phoebe starts talking to people on the campus, she comes to the conclusion that there is, indeed, a secret society operating undercover on the Lyle campus. They're all girls and they go by the name of The Sixes. Someone doesn't want Phoebe to keep digging, though. There are several scary incidents that target Phoebe and really leave no doubt, to her anyway, that The Sixes are behind them.

In the middle of all of this, she starts seeing Duncan Shaw, a professor in the Psychology department. Things seem to be looking up in the direction of her romantic life when, suddenly, they start crashing down around her once more. People are dying around her and it all seems to be directed at stopping her from investigating The Sixes. Could a group of girls actually be responsible for these deaths? Is it possible that they're really that evil? These are questions that Phoebe needs answers to, and fast, because whoever is responsible is closing in on her now. Will she discover the truth before it's too late?

This was my first book by writer Kate White but it most certainly won't be my last. She has crafted a wonderful plot that will keep you riveted from the opening sentence until the final one. THE SIXES has everything it needs to be turned into a highly intriguing movie. Treat yourself to this book when you have no other plans because you'll be changing them in favor of finding out what's going on in THE SIXES.