Meg Rosenthal,with her incomplete English doctorate,feels fortunate to land a teaching job at the private Arcadia School after the unexpected death of her hedge fund founder husband,who had borrowed against his life insurance and left her with debts and a heavily mortgaged house in Great Neck.Making a new life for herself and her teenage daughter,Sally,she arrives at the school—founded by the late beloved companions Lily Eberhardt and Vera Beecher—just before the pagan-inspired First Night Festival,during which a student dies.An aura of myth and mystery surrounds the school from the opening pages,and when Meg finds the hidden journal left by Lily, whose untimely death decades earlier also left questions,secrets begin to be revealed and more deaths result.
