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- Haunted boarding schools with buried secrets resurfacing decades later
- Journalists digging into cold cases with personal stakes
- Friendship bonds tested by mysterious disappearances
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1950. At Idlewild Hall, a boarding school for unwanted and troubled girls, four roommates bond over shared secrets and fears. Then one day, one of them goes missing. But no-one in authority seems to be looking for her.
In 2014 we follow Fiona, whose sister, Deb, was found murdered in Idlewild's overgrown field twenty years ago. Something she can’t let go. During renovations of Idlewild another body is found and Fiona begins to uncover the horrors and dark secrets that have been hidden for decades.
Atmospheric and addictive, this intricate historical mystery had me on the edge of my seat. In the past timeline I was completely immersed in the harsh reality of life at Idlewild and the eerie legends that haunt it, while in the present I was eager to uncover the truth. A haunting gothic tale, this will stay with you long after you turn that final page.
A journalist uncovers the dark secrets of an abandoned boarding school in this chilling suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.
Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants—the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the ones too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall, and local legend says the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their friendship blossoming—until one of them mysteriously disappears....
Vermont, 2014. Twenty years ago, journalist Fiona Sheridan's elder sister's body was found in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And although her sister's boyfriend was tried and convicted of the murder, Fiona can't stop revisiting the events, unable to shake the feeling that something was never right about the case.
When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she decides to write a story about it. But a shocking discovery during renovations links the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past—and a voice that won't be silenced....
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