


Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Joan's buzzes with rumor rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. Until they can't.įirst it's the school's queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys' texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Joan's Academy, and school is a pressure cooker.
