It's 2005, senior year at Yale, and Rosie is best friends with the coolest girl on campus. Rosie might be middle class, but Cressida Tate is richer than God, and their group of friends and roommates--Rosie, Andra, and Lila--orbit around her accordingly. Rosie returns from a semester abroad to find that their group has been infiltrated by a new student, and she's forced to share not only Cressida's attention but also a bedroom, with Annelise Tattinger.

All 5 of the girls are on Yale's equestrian team, and while Annelise is new to competing, she's undeniably talented, threatening to surpass Cressida as top rider. The girls idolize Cressida's father, the magnate Grayson Tate, who got his start in horses. Rosie even secretly learned to ride through a charity program started by Grayson. Needless to say, expectations are high for his daughter to follow in his footsteps.

Rosie is skeptical of Annelise at first, worried for her own place in the group. Annelise is different from the other girls. She has a passion for reading tarot cards, and a different way of looking at fortune vs. destiny. She and Rosie quickly grow close, at first to Cressida's joy, but then to her annoyance.

This story is told in two parts, one in 2005 throughout the girls' senior year, and the other in 2006, post-graduation. Rosie is shaped by her experiences in both timelines, and her idolization and later disillusionment with the extremely wealthy are a vehicle for her learning who she is and wants to be. I'm a sucker for a good "rich people behaving badly" story, as well as anything examining the intensity of female friendships. Adding the ultra-competitive equestrian team and Yale angle to those made this an extra fun and tense read.

Maybe my favorite part was the examination of social class and the machinations of wealth and power. It was bleak at times, but profound. I also loved that there was an epitaph at the start of each chapter featuring a tarot card pull for Rosie's day, and Annelise's interpretation and explanation.

I previously read "The Ballerinas" by this author and much preferred "The Fortune Seller", but I really enjoy her writing and the topics she explores, so I'll definitely be picking up more of her work! Thank you to NetGalley for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review!