So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christy, a boarding school for the world’s wealthiest teens, the hushed truths
of this strange, unfamiliar land begin calling to her — sometimes as
lulling drumbeats in the night, sometimes as piercing shrieks.
One by one, unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is
painted across the island or why she is forbidden to cross it. Her every move — even her performance at the school dance — is graded as part of a
competition to become valedictorian, a title that brings rewards no one
will talk about. And Anne discovers that the parents of her peers
surrender million-dollar possessions to enroll their kids in Cania
Christy, leaving her to wonder what her lowly funeral director father
could have paid to get her in... and why.
As a beautiful senior
struggles to help Anne make sense of this cloak-and-dagger world without breaking the rules that bind him, she must summon the courage to face
the impossible truth — and change it — before she and everyone she loves is
destroyed by it.