HarperCollins
August 2011
On Sale: August 31, 2011
Featuring: Duncan Shaw; Glenda Johns; Phoebe Hall
352 pages ISBN: 006157662X EAN: 9780061576621 Hardcover Add to Wish List
From the New York Times bestselling author of Hush and the
Bailey Weggins mystery series comes a thriller set in a
college town where a student’s death sends one woman on a
search for the truth and into the clutches of a frightening
secret society.
Phoebe Hall’s Manhattan life has suddenly begun to unravel.
Right after her long-term boyfriend breaks off their
relationship, she’s falsely accused of plagiarizing her
latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet
place to put her life back together, Phoebe jumps at the
offer to teach in a sleepy Pennsylvania town at a small
private college run by her former boarding school roommate
and close friend, Glenda Johns.
But behind the campus’s quiet cafÉs and leafy maple trees
lie evil happenings. The body of a female student washes up
on the banks of a nearby river, and disturbing revelations
begin to surface: accusations from coeds about abuses
wrought by a secret society of girls on campus known as The
Sixes.. To help Glenda, Phoebe embarks on a search for
clues—a quest that soon raises painful memories of her own
boarding school days years ago.
As the investigation heats up, Phoebe unexpectedly finds
herself falling for the school’s handsome psychology
professor, Duncan Shaw. But when nasty pranks turn into
deadly threats, Phoebe realizes she’s in the middle of a
real-life nightmare, not knowing whom she can trust and if
she will even survive.
Plunging deeper into danger with every step, Phoebe knows
she’s close to unmasking a killer. But with truth comes a
terrifying revelation: your darkest secrets can still be
uncovered . . . and starting over may be a crime punishable
by death.