While planning for her senior year at boarding school, Leena uses her connections with the Dean to have Frost House converted into a girls’ dormitory for the year. Leena’s interest in Frost House is more than casual; she’s obsessed with the place, and with architecture in general. She plans to live in the charming little [...]

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While her parents are on sabbatical in Bristol, Louisiana-native Rory attends a boarding school in London. Shortly after she arrives, a series of Jack the Ripper-esque murders occur, and Rippermania takes over London. As if settling into English life isn’t hard enough for Rory (who, in her first days at school, embarrassingly chokes on a [...]

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Meg Rosenthal needs a fresh start after the death of her husband. She gave up her career as an artist when her daughter Sally was born, but when she is left with virtually nothing except for a barely functional car, she finds a job teaching folklore and English at a small boarding school for young [...]

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A haunting love story about desire, danger, and destiny. After Renee Winters discovers her parents lying dead in California’s Redwood Forest in what appears to be a strange double murder, her grandfather sends her off to Gottfried Academy in Maine, a remote and mysterious high school dedicated to philosophy, “crude sciences,” and Latin: the Language [...]

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After her sister Athena’s tragic death, it’s obvious that grief-stricken Persephone “Phe” Archer no longer belongs in Los Angeles. Hoping to make sense of her sister’s sudden demise and the cryptic dreams following it, Phe abandons her bubbly LA life to attend an uptight East Coast preparatory school in Shadow Hills, MA — a school [...]

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