"A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this . . . psycholgoical thriller. One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the family's lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions. Years later, seventeen-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood, the prestigious New England school she attends . . . Charlie has also been tapped by the A's--the school's elite secret society well known for terrorizing the faculty, administration, and their enemies. . . As the dark events of past and present converge, Charlie begins to fear that she may not survive the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life"--Amazon.com.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: secret societies, fiction, boarding schools, missing persons, family secrets, elite (social sciences), detective and mystery fiction, mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)
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Klehfoth, Elizabeth
"A young woman haunted by a family tragedy is caught up in a dangerous web of lies and deception involving a secret society in this . . . psycholgoical thriller. One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the family's lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions. Years later, seventeen-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood, the prestigious New England school she attends . . . Charlie has also been tapped by the A's--the school's elite secret society well known for terrorizing the faculty, administration, and their enemies. . . As the dark events of past and present converge, Charlie begins to fear that she may not survive the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life"--Amazon.com.
Schools: 12
Klehfoth, Elizabeth
While attending a prestigious New England school, seventeen-year-old Charlie seeks to become a member of an elite secret society by playing The Game, a semester-long, high-stakes scavenger hunt that will reveal the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life.
Schools: 1