![]() She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you.Īs a girl Mia fell in love with a book. As she does, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. Through a journey of heartbreak, love, and time, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. ![]() But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community-an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. Ambrose School for Girls is a dangerous, delicious, twisty coming-of-age tale that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.įrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery, and the enduring magic of books. But when scandal unfolds, and someone ends up dead, her world threatens to unravel in ways she could never have imagined. Sarah is determined not to give Greta the satisfaction of breaking her. Between Strots and Nick, Sarah hopes she can make it through the semester, dealing with not only her schoolwork and a recent bipolar diagnosis, but Greta’s increasingly malicious pranks. Also down the hall is Nick Hollis, the devastatingly handsome RA, and the object of more than one St. Thankfully, Sarah makes an ally out of her roommate Ellen “Strots” Strotsberry, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete who takes no bullshit. Ambrose’s queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one and the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making sure Sarah knows what the pecking order is. She knows she’s not like the other girls-if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don’t give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. Ambrose School, she’s carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. ![]() Heathers meets The Secret History in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school where the secrets are devastating-and deadly. ![]()
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