First published 2026
Jess has spent years getting sent away. Detention centers, special schools, one after another. When a scholarship lands her at Danvers-Cutteridge, a prestigious school tucked into the mountains of West Virginia, her first thought is the same as always: find the exit. Then she learns a student has vanished. Her new friends don't believe the official story, and Jess starts digging. What she finds goes back further than one missing girl. Past residents of Danvers-Cutteridge were abused and mutilated. The headmaster's family holds a strange grip on the place that runs through generations. And somewhere in the valley, a legend persists: a girl in green, seen for decades, never explained. Jess pushes deeper, past locked doors and buried records, into the parts of the school's history that were meant to stay dark. She came to Danvers-Cutteridge looking for a way out. Now she has to decide how far in she is willing to go.
Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, thriller, young-adult, dark-academia
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, eerie, gripping, suspenseful, unsettling
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family, haunted-location, mystery-investigation
Setting: Danvers-Cutteridge, West Virginia
Period: 21st-century
400 pages · Hardcover · HarperCollins
Content warnings: abuse, death