Publisher's Synopsis
"...a magical, tragic tale of innocence and evil and of the ghosts that lurk behind the most ordinary lives." BOOKLIST "...an acute eye for detail...Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity." THE TIMES For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided between those born and bred in the 'village' and those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together by an inexplicable death. The lives of everyone involved are unravelled: from Carlin Leander, the proud and loyal fifteen-year-old scholarship girl, to Betsy Chase, a woman running from her own destiny; from August Pierce, a misfit at the school, to Abel Grey, the maverick police officer who refuses to let unspeakable actions - both past and present - slide by without notice.
