Lois Duncan's 1958 classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town. Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when her father forbids her from coming out' as a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she meets Anna, an artist overlooked by the debutante crowd, and bad boy Dirk Masters, who has a fast car, a quick temper and a dark secret involving Lynn.'