Welcome to Blythewood.

At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mom, survived a horrific stock fire, and escaped from an crazy asylum. Right now she’s on her behalf method to Blythewood Academy, the top notch boarding school in New York’s mist-shrouded Hudson Valley that her mom attended-and was expelled from. Though she’s afraid her high culture classmates won’t acknowledge a factory female within their midst, Ava is certainly desperate to unravel her family’s murky previous, discover the identity from the about Blythewood father she’s under no circumstances known, and perhaps finally understand her mother’s abrupt suicide. She’s also on the search for the identity of the secret youngster who rescued her from your fireplace. And she suspects the answers she seeks lay at Blythewood.

But absolutely nothing could have ready her for the dark key of what Blythewood is, and what its learners are being trained to accomplish. Haunted by dreams of a winged son and pursued by visions of a sinister guy who breathes smoke cigarettes, Ava isn’t sure if she’s shedding her mind or getting nearer to the truth. And the more rigorously Ava digs into the past, the more threatening her present becomes.

Vivid and atmospheric, filled with mystery and magic, this romantic page-turner by bestselling author Carol Goodman tells the storyplot of a global around the brink of change and the lady who is the catalyst for it all.