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Kensington
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Featuring: Ethan Whitley; Todd Eldon; Hannah McClellan
320 pages
ISBN: 0758222599
EAN: 9780758222596
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From Tom Dolby, the acclaimed author of The Trouble
Boy, comes an extraordinary new novel a sensitive coming
of age tale and a compelling work of suspense that explores
the price of innocence betrayed and the complexities of
personal truth. When seventeen-year-old Ethan Whitley leaves his home in
California for Berkley Academy, a prestigious Massachusetts
prep school, he's a blank slate, a shy follower of rules in
search of himself. Ethan is given the chance to start over
when he is hand-picked by his wealthy, disaffected
classmate, Todd Eldon, and a seductive, enigmatic teacher,
Hannah McClellan, a free spirit for whom rules were meant to
be broken. Life with Todd and Hannah is a revelation, an invitation to
a world of privilege and desire trips to a glittering,
gritty New York City with its Fifth Avenue penthouses and
artists' lofts; clandestine encounters in the graveyard near
Berkley's wooded campus; and private meetings at Hannah's
secluded house where they can drink wine and read Rimbaud,
testing their limits and temptation in equal measure.
Looming over these heady evenings is the disturbing mystery
of Hannah's fragmented past, one that Ethan longs
desperately to understand. As secrets are revealed, Ethan is pulled deep into the
undertow of Hannah's history and Todd's longings. He learns
that every deceit has a price, every lie an ugly truth, and
that those he has come to trust are people he doesn't know
at all. The most dangerous stories of all, though, may be
the ones he has told himself.
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