From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery — Prep meets The Crucible.
It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure
cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering
boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.
First it’s the
school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into
uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly
spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and
symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s
buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.
Soon
the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to
find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the
girls faking? Only Colleen — who’s been reading The Crucible for
extra credit — comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once
Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly
bizarre epidemic three centuries ago...
Inspired by true events — from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school — Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful
novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really
happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?
