First published 2025
Move-in day at Tiffin Academy brings shocking news: America Today ranked the New England boarding school second in the nation, jumping seventeen spots despite its reputation for parties over academics. The campus celebrates until anonymous gossip begins spreading through ZipZap, a new app targeting everyone with scandalous blind items. International influencer Davi Banerjee rules the social hierarchy as resident queen bee. Transfer student Charley Hicks actively resists fitting in. Young history teacher Simone Bergeron navigates her first year. Admissions Director Cordelia Spooner employs unconventional methods. As the academic year progresses, the anonymous attacks intensify, exposing secrets that threaten to destroy reputations and relationships. Students and faculty discover that everyone harbors hidden truths in the rarified world of elite boarding school life. Bonds form and shatter as the ZipZap revelations force the Tiffin community to confront who they really are beneath their carefully constructed facades.
Genres: mystery, contemporary, school, academia
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, hidden-truths
Setting: Tiffin Academy
Period: Contemporary
432 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company