The Sixes: A Novel

Phoebe Hall’s Manhattan life has unexpectedly begun to unravel. Right after her long-term boyfriend breaks off their relationship she’s accused of plagiarizing her latest bestselling celebrity biography. Looking for a quiet place to put her life back together, Phoebe jumps at the offer to teach in a rustic Pennsylvania town at a small private college.

But when the body of a female student washes up from the nearby river, disturbing secrets begin to surface among the students: accusations of abuses wrought by a secret society of girls on campus known as The Sixes. Determined to find answers, Phoebe embarks on a search for clues—a quest that soon raises dark memories of her own boarding school days years ago. But with truth comes a deeply terrifying revelation: your deepest secrets can still be uncovered . . . and starting over can be a crime punishable by death.