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How far can you go for attention?

Finn and Chloe have it all figured out. It’s not enough to be clever, good looking or sporty. To get on, you’ve got to get noticed. You’ve got to be famous for something, right? Chloe decides there’s another way to get attention.

She and Finn will stage her own disappearance - and then Finn will be the one who finds and saves her. It seems like a good idea, until things go badly wrong. What seemed victimless isn’t so innocent anymore. And it’s Finn who must deal with the fall-out.

Accomplice is a compulsive thriller that will have teens drawn to the ultimate attention-seeking premise: staging your own kidnapping!

The picture they usually use is one from the ‘Activities’ spread of the yearbook. Chloe’s got denim overalls buckled over a white T-shirt and her hair’s wound into these two loose braids. Like an even blonder version of the girl on the hot chocolate box. She’s gleaming. Beaming. And then, of course, there’s the sheep.

            It’s a picture we took at the county fair, so Chloe has a lamb cradled under one arm. The networks loved that—Chloe and her little lamb. In the original snapshot, Chloe’s other arm is linked through mine and we’re leaning toward each other. But when the story first hit the papers, someone picked out that photo and cut me out of it, so it looks like Chloe has her head tipped toward nothing. The way dumber girls do, like something’s just so hilarious they can’t even hold their heads up right. Laughing Chloe and her Lamb. Lost, little Chloe.

It’s not like I took it personally. It was exactly the kind of picture that we figured networks would use.

It was all part of our plan.