Publishing Deal - Lauren Kate

News of a UK release for Lauren Kate's The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove which was published in the US in 2009. From Booktrade:

RHCB is delighted to announce that RHCB has acquired THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE by US author Lauren Kate.

THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE features the most ruthlessly ambitious heroine since Lady Macbeth. Natalie is utterly determined to cement her position at the top of the high school social ladder by becoming prom queen. When it looks like an interfering ex-boyfriend might get in her way, she devises a little prank to humiliate him. But when it goes devastatingly wrong, Natalie's careful plans begin to unravel. Caught in a web of dark secrets, shame and scandal, it's not guilt that eventually defeats Natalie. It's fate: the only thing she can't control.

THE BETRAYAL OF NATALIE HARGROVE will be published in paperback in January 2011.