Katie’s grad class has been banned from playing Gotcha, the traditional bead-stealing game grade 12 students have been playing at her school for years. The grad council takes the game underground, and over 200 students sign up to play the game. Every student gets a bead and the name of another student, whose bead they have to steal by tagging them. The game has been banned because it tends to get out of hand and students have been hurt playing it before.

Katie doesn't want to play Gotcha, but she gets pressured into it because she is the secretary on the grad council and the whole council is putting on the game. When her ankle gets sprained and she can't work, she gets a bit desperate for money and lets her recently estranged father invest the Gotcha prize money after he promises to triple her savings in a matter of days.

This book had me screaming at it for a few reasons. First, there's a spelling error on the very first page. Second, Katie writes emails to her dad in netspeak. Third, Katie, why?!?!? I got over the first two reasons and got pretty invested in the story. Katie makes the kind of errors in judgment that has always made me write people off as being unworthy of my time. Still, I found the book compelling and I liked that not everything was fixed in the end.