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HarperCollins
May 2013
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Featuring: Allie; Sylvain; Carter
ISBN: 0062193856
EAN: 9780062193858
Hardcover
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Young Adult Suspense
Angry and upset over the loss of her brother, Christopher,
Allie's vandalism gets her expelled from school--again. Her
exasperated parents pack her off to Cimmeria Academy, a
boarding school in the remote English countryside.
Puzzlingly, her classmates aren't troubled youth like Allie
but the gifted offspring of wealthy families educated at
Cimmeria for generations. Everyone, especially Allie,
wonders why she's there--and why the school's hottest guys
are smitten with her: smooth, uber-male Sylvain and
smoldering, bad-boy Carter. Although readers can plot the
triangle's romantic trajectory early on, other narrative
twists and turns remain pleasurably unpredictable.
Cimmeria's as much an enigma as its students. They're not to
enter the woods after dark; computers and cellphones are
forbidden. A few, Sylvain and Carter included, attend the
mysterious Night School but refuse to discuss it. Even
Allie's best friend, Jo, keeps secrets from her.
Frustratingly, whenever love or attraction is in the air,
Alllie's gutsy leadership dissolves into old-fashioned
passivity (somewhere between Bella and Katniss on the
heroine-autonomy spectrum). But when the summer ball ends
horrifically, Allie's ready to take action.
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