The internationally bestselling author pens a haunting psychological thriller involving cruelty secrets and murder at an exclusive private school Luisa a renowned mystery writer is beginning her new novel a story of psychological suspense that centers on the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school The author has a close familiarity with her setting her thirteen-year-old daughter Elba is about to begin her academic year at the same school that Luisa once attended a school much like the one in the novelBut as her work progresses the line between art and life begins to blur Deeply repressed anxieties bubble to the surface and she worries not only for her daughters well-being but also for her own As her new novel unfolds events on the page ring with a disturbing familiaritya troubling symmetry that is compounded when Luisa runs into two former classmates whose children also attend the school The unexpected meeting brings to light a gruesome event the three sharedWhen Elba is implicated in the accidental death of a classmate past and present real life and fiction become one Convinced that her novel has set in motion an unspeakable horror Luisa must find a way to stop itbefore everything she loves is lost.
