Homecoming Queen is the third installment of the Carter House girl series. The story follows main character DJ and the rest of the Carter House girls. In the previous book Stealing Bradford, Taylor disappeared at the end of the story. Taylor’s disappearing act followed a Myspace incident involving scandalous pictures of her, leaked by an unknown person. Homecoming Queen begins with Taylor returning home after the police and townspeople including the girls have worried about and searched for her for weeks. Upon her return, Taylor isn’t ready to talk about her experience and imparts to DJ that she would prefer to attend school and pretend that nothing happened. On the drive to school together, DJ asks Taylor if she ever discovered who had terrorized her on social media to which Taylor replied she had not. Hoping to defuse the situation then, rather than when Taylor heard it at school, DJ reveals that it was Casey: another girl from their own house. In an attempt to try and explain Casey’s motives, of which were somewhat justifiable, Taylor becomes outraged and vows to get revenge by pressing charges. Her plan having backfired, a panicked DJ calls Casey to warn her about what happened. Casey takes the news surprisingly calm stating she is resigned to her fate but is not sorry for what she did. After practice, DJ and Casey go to meet DJ’s boyfriend Conner after his soccer practice. However, while they are talking DJ notices a small boy walking into traffic by a nearby street