From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a
pulse-pounding thriller that goes behind the doors of an exclusive
academy with a terrifying secret....
Ever since her father was killed in a home invasion, Julia "Jules"
Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now
seventeen, has had her own difficulties, earning a lengthy rap sheet.
Still, when Jules learns of her mother's decision to send Shay to Blue
Rock Academy, an elite boarding school in Oregon, Jules is skeptical. A
student went missing a few months earlier and there are rumors she may
have died during one of the school's questionable treatments.
On impulse, Jules applies for a teaching job at the Academy. Shortly
before she arrives, a student is found hanged, another near death.
Hysterical, Shay believes it's murder. Staff members are wary and
unwelcoming--all except Cooper Trent, who has his own suspicions, his
own secrets, and was once Jules's lover.
Then another girl is found dead. Something sinister is at hand--but
Jules may be too late to stop it. Behind the Academy's idyllic veneer
lurks an evil force on a brutal and terrifying mission. And Jules has
become the next target of a bloodthirsty killer without limits, without
remorse, without mercy...
"A juicy creep-a-thon...builds to a suprising cliffhanger ending."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A nail-biting roller-coaster ride." --Library Journal
"The book's ending will throw most readers for a loop." --The Free
Lance-Star
