the tenth circle

The book starts out with a popular high school freshmen girl, Trixie, who's just been heartbroken. She made new friends and became popular through her ex - Jason. But when he ended it, her whole world came crashing down and she was in a depression. She devises a plan to win him back, by playing a game of strip poker with her friend Zephyr, her crush, Jason and herself. But the plan takes a turn for the worst and Jason rapes Trixie. Or so she claims. After being given the rape kit exam, they find there isn't much evidence to show that it wasn't consensual. Trixie's father is convinced that this boy has hurt his daughter, and will put up with nothing of this false accusation they think Trixie is making. Throughout the book, Trixie goes through lots of depression and even starts cutting herself. It doesn't help that Trixie's parents are going through a tough time after Trixie's mom confesses she was having an affair with one of her college students, and was there in fact on the night Trixie was raped. Jason has a hockey scholarship going for him and with these big charges against him, this scholarship is dropped. He's lost his dream in life and blames Trixie for it. And so does the rest of the school, not believing that he really raped her. But when Jason ends up dead after an altercation between Trixie's father, Daniel, and Jason, Trixie loses it. While it first appears to be a suicide (jumped off a bridge), the police discover evidence that he was pushed off that bridge and immediately assume it was Trixie or her father.

Trixie Stone is depressed and alone because no one at school believes her and they don't talk to her