First published 2014
Reeling from a fiancé's sudden death, Alex flees to Edinburgh to teach at a last-chance school for troubled teens. Her damaged, volatile students resist her efforts until she hits upon Greek tragedies as a way to reach them. As Alex and her class delve into tales of cruel fate and bloody vengeance, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur. When the students' darker impulses take over, Alex must decide how far she'll go to protect them—and herself.
Genres: fiction, mystery, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: damaged-protagonist, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Edinburgh (Scotland)
297 pages · Hardcover · St. Martin's Press
Content warnings: mental-illness