When the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to private school after mysteriously getting kicked out of boarding school, the whole school is talking.

All Blair Waldorf knows is that there's no freaking way Serena's going to just waltz back in with her Jimmy Choo mules and Kate Spade bag and steal everyone's heart again.

But Serena's got other things on her mind, like college pressure and living up to everyone else's extreme expectations. Plus there's that Ryan Phillippe-looking guy who stands across the street and stares at her all the time.

All of this is observed and recorded by the mysterious, anonymous Gossip Girl. She has all the inside scoop on the inner-workings of this privileged society because she's one of them!

Sharp wit, intriguing characters and high stakes melodrama!