A simmering psychological thriller about a dead teacher at an elite boarding school,the students who had every reason to want her goneand the tangled web of rivalry and romance concealing the truthΓÇöfrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places. At an elite New England boarding schooleight students are selected for an exclusive storytelling workshop with the one and only Meredith GraffamΓÇöan enigmatic writerdirectorand actress. For sixteen daysthey will live in the isolated estate of the schoolΓÇÖs foundersurrounded by snowy woods and a storm-tossed seas. Only one of the chosen will walk away with a lifechanging opportunity to realize their creative dreams. Everyoneincluding Graffamhas a compelling reason to be thereΓÇöEffythe orphanIsaacthe legacyNessthe wallflowerRamonthe outsiderand Arlowhose unexpected arrival leaves Effy spiralingΓÇöbut only the most ambitious will last the term. GraffamΓÇÖs unorthodox methods push the students past the breaking pointrevealing their darkest secretstaking unthinkable risksand slowly starting to turn on one another. But Graffam never expected they would turn on her . . . From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places comes a psychological thriller about the monsters who walk among usΓÇöeven in the glittering upper echelons of societyΓÇöand the ways in which we seek redemption for the wrongs weΓÇÖve done. \