Secret Society Girl: An Ivy League Novel -- Diana Peterfreund

As the editor of Eli University's Literary Magazine, junior Amy Haskel expects to be tapped into Quill & Ink, the "literary" secret society.  So when she discovers that it's Rose & Grave that has taken an interest -- Rose & Grave, representative of money and power, the elite of the elite, Rose & Grave, that might possibly run the country (and maybe even a few others) -- well, that she is surprised is a vast understatement.

Though she has no idea why they'd want her, she accepts (because how could she not!?).  She finds that her decision might not make her life easier -- it might actually destroy it.

This book almost got me hit by a car.  I have a habit of reading while I walk to work, and usually I'm able to keep an eye on the road as well as my book.  Not so much with Secret Society Girl.  I was hooked, hooked, hooked, hooked, hooked.  It isn't deep or particularly literary (you may have guessed that from the cover), but it's compulsively readable and completely entertaining.  The characters are likable* and bright and I've already ordered the second book in the series.

Although it was published and marketed as a grown-up book, it'd be a great pick for older teen chick-lit readers -- especially those who enjoy their chick-lit with a dash of intrigue.

*Except Brandon.  Was I supposed to like her goo-goo-eyed co-editor?  Because he might have been steady and so on, but he was also pretty boring.