The Social Code

In a world where anyone can rise to the top, the only rule is... watch your back, in Sadie Hayes' The Social Code. Eighteen-year-old twins Adam and Amelia Dory learned the hard way to rely only on each other, growing up in a small town where they understood the meaning of coming from nothing. But everything changes when both are offered scholarships to Stanford University and catapulted into the dazzling world of Silicon Valley, where anyone with a good enough idea can skyrocket to fame and fortune in the blink of an eye Amelia is almost as pretty as she is smart almost.

A shy girl and genius, she is happiest alone in the computer lab, but her brother has other plans for her talents A new company that will be the next Silicon Valley hit, and will thrust Amelia into the spotlight whether she likes it or not. Where Amelia's the brains, Adam's the ambition he sees the privileged lifestyle of the Silicon Valley kids and wants a piece of what they have. He especially wants a piece of Lisa Bristol, the stunning daughter of one of the Valley's biggest tycoons.

As Adam and Amelia begin to hatch their new company, they find themselves going from nothing to the verge of everything seemingly overnight. But no amount of prestige can prepare them for the envy, backstabbing and cool calculation of their new powerful peers. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where fortune, success and betrayal are only a breath away

HAYES is the nom de plume of a former Silicon Valley executive. With two degrees from Stanford University, and years working in the tech industry, both as an entrepreneur and an advisor to its characters, she's seen the effects of rapid success and shattering failure first hand. If you work in Silicon Valley, you might not know Sadie Hayes.

But she knows you