Young Adult Revisited

Nancy and the gals are off to help Alison MacDonald find a missing fortune. Alice was a good friend of hers when she was kids but left town after her parents died. She inherited the Crystal Palace, a big ass arena, from her uncle. Her uncle's will left her money that went missing. Though she called Carson for help, he was way too busy and sent Nancy in his place. Alison meets them and explains that she used a lot of money to make repairs to the building and desperately needs the missing cash. The big Midwestern skating championship is taking place that week too. She introduces them to some other people. There's Ted, the handyman, Meg, a former Olympian turned coach, Sarah, one of the skaters, Scott, a skater, and Amanda, another skater paired with Scott. Scott and Sarah are also a couple. Meg comes over and gets really snappy because her students didn't get their own private practice place and basically warns Alison that the competition will be a disaster. We ...

Elizabeth just found Conner in her bathroom and quickly learns that her new friend Megan is his little half-sister. After staring at his chest for way too long, she keeps fighting with him and sneaking looks back at his chest. I already don't like this, and I especially don't like the relationship between the two of them. They spend a good portion of the book snapping at each, so it doesn't help when Maria develops a crush on him. Tia, her boyfriend Angel, and Andy come over to pick Conner up and instead invite Liz along to hit up the House of Java. They quickly become the best of friends, which gives her an excuse not to hang out with Maria. She even skips an Oracle meeting to go shopping with them because they want to get some new clothes to hit up Riot, an underage club in town. She asks Maria to go with them a few times and hides her delight when she can't go. Unfortunately, Maria can go with them to Riot on Friday. They instantly start sharing in jok...

Nancy, Bess, and George are in NYC to spend some time with her aunt Eloise. While at a garden party, Bess finds out that this huge rock star named Lance is there, and George comments on all the chicks waiting to dance with him. Nancy gets a note from Ms. Hardwood, her former neighbor from River Heights. She needs to talk to her about something vitally important. Ms. Hardwood has a daughter, Lisa, who married a wealthy nobleman named Hugh. They moved back to his hometown in England. Ms. Hardwood shows Nancy a picture of Lisa and asks if it's possible that her husband might be poisoning her. She keeps showing all the classic symptoms and doesn't seem like herself anymore. The older lady then asks if Nancy might possibly go to London and check on things herself. Before she can make a decision, she notices an arrowhead. Hardwood explains that it fell out of the envelope, and Nancy thinks it looks ancient. The woman then asks if she wants to meet Lance and offers to in...