TheRiverdalegang is hitting the road.
Written by Micol Ostow (What Would My Cell Phone Do?
), the book finds the gang hatching a new plan.
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Archies on trial for the murder, and the evidence is stacked against him.
They have to go back to Shadow Lake.
Threats are around every corner deep in the woods at the Lodge family cabin.
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Will the kids find the evidence they need to clear Archies name?
And more importantly, will they make it back toRiverdalealive?
So theres plenty ofRiverdalereading (and, of course,watching) to do.
Read on below, andpre-order the bookahead of its May 28, 2019 release.
In Riverdale, summer belongs to us.
Or thats what we thought, anyway.
Before we were forced to consider the terrifyingand terrifyingly realpossibility that that Archies trial was only the beginning.
We werent necessarily torn up about his death.
And they probably would have done worse if Veronica hadnt triggered the silent alarm.
So we werent sorry hed been killed (presumably by the Lodge family bodyguard, Andre).
What we were sorry about was that Hiram Lodge, Veronicas father, had framed Archie for the murder.
And that the charges had stuck.
Summer love.The poet Wallace Stevens wrote Summer night is like the perfection of thought.
But for Archie, Veronica, Betty, and me, there was no perfection to be found.
Only the relentlessness of reality.
Second to Mary on the Team Archie lineup was Betty Cooper, pragmatic and determined, as always.
Now, though, she was using her investigative talents to prove her oldest friends innocence.
The price at the heart of their feverish feud?
One Archie Andrews liberty.
Maybe even his soul.
But I had a gangliterallylooking to me, depending on me to lead them.
The problem was, I wasnt sure I believed it.
When Jason Blossom was murdered, the town of Riverdale lost something innate, something ineffable.
For decades, our tiny community shimmered with wholesome, small-town charm.
No one bothered to peel back the facade, to strip away the picture-perfect Norman Rockwell homage.
No one wanted to .
not even those who knew better.
Those who knew all too well this towns secrets, and its rotting, dark-hearted core.
Poised to lose everything, for the simple mistake of crossing the wrong man.
Summer had stretched, sticky and unforgiving, tangling the four of us in an in intricate web.
Labor Day was bearing down.
Most teens would be dreading going back to school: homework, cliques, early wake-ups.
We werent thinking about that.
We would have given anything to be thinking about stuff like that.
And if we couldnt save Archie from the dark horrors lying at Riverdales heart, who would?
