She convinces her boss to allow her to do a story about the school's restoration for the magazine she works for. Now, in present day, 2014, someone has taken an interest in Idlewood, determined to restore the old boarding house, which only intensifies Fiona’s obsession over her sister’s death. Over the years, the abandoned school was nothing more than an eyesore, protecting its memories and ghosts from the outside world, its most recent claim to fame being the general location of where Fiona Sheridan’s sister was found dead over twenty years ago. During the fifties, this school was where troubled girls were sent, and where a group of girls forge an unlikely and formidable friendship which would cause a rippling effect for decades to come. Set in Vermont, alternating between 19, this well rounded thriller, centers around a girl’s only school named Idlewood Hall. But a shocking discovery during the renovations will link the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past-and a voice that won't be silenced. . . When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she decides to write a story about it. And though her sister's boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder, Fiona can't shake the suspicion that something was never right about the case.

Twenty years ago, her body was found lying in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming-until one of them mysteriously disappears. . . And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants-the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. A suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James