By Frye Martin

Bonfire of the Vanities, told in three volumes, features a cast of high school students who live in the wake of "The Vanities," the cool kids who run everything, but they are all players in a much larger conflict than they know. In Bonfire of the Vanities: Strike, Jill unwittingly inserts herself into the situation when she attempts to cope with the loss of her brother, Gage. Bad-boy basketball star, Nikola, saves her from the impact of a moving bus. Then he takes her under his wing, but she suspects that his motives are no good. Jill faces crushes, haters, questions and Nikola's demands. Then tragedy strikes. Things end up more confused than they started. In Bonfire of the Vanities: Combust, Jill gets pulled down deeper than ever. She begins a new semester and finds new challenges, new enemies and many more questions. In Bonfire of the Vanities: Blaze, the war begins.