"A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death, a new mystery has cropped up--a game with dangerous consequences that's targeting students at Bayview again. And if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly"--

When the Madame X gossip column debuts in the Joyce Kilmer Gazette, students at Joyce Kilmer Middle School try to figure out who is behind it, which causes many rumors and distrust.

"Terri Rayburn is a girl with a reputation. She doesn't deserve it, but having grown up on the outskirts of Summer Hill, Virginia, she knows how small towns work. The only way to deal with vicious gossip is to ignore it, so she keeps to herself as she runs the summer resort on Lake Kissel. When she returns home from a short trip to find a handsome stranger living in her house, she smells a rat. Someone is trying to fix her up, and she has to admit...

Soccer Mackenzie, a mouse who lives in the pantry with his family, becomes worried when he hears gossip about a new cat in the house.