Age: High school-college

Seventeen-year-old Kiera *needs* an escape from being the token black girl at her high school. With her whip-smart math and programming skills, she develops SLAY an online gaming world to celebrate black culture and provide a safe space to be an authentic version of your black self, in whatever way that may mean. While proud of the game, she refuses to share her accomplishments with her friends and family--even her boyfriend. When a teen is murdered over a dispute in the game and the press demand a response, Kiera's giant secret threatens to be revealed to those she loves.

An action-packed read with a tantalizing mystery will hook gamer kids and fans of realistic fiction to the very end. There's been a lot of recent books about "the black kid at the predominately white prep school" but Morris' focus on celebrating and navigating various forms of black culture really pushes SLAY to the forefront in terms of accessibility for black readers.