A sharp psychological gothic novel and a crime drama about the fact that the future is impossible without dealing with the past. Idlewild Hall has always been a gloomy place. In the 1950s it housed a boarding school for troubled girls—rebels, illegitimate children, and those with developmental issues. There were rumors that a ghost lived there, and local residents preferred to avoid it. The school was closed after a mysterious disappearance of a pupil—one of four close friends. Nearly half a century later, the body of a girl was found near the abandoned building. Her murder was blamed on—and later convicted—of the boy she was dating. And twenty years after that, a terrible discovery during reconstruction work at Idlewild Hall links these two tragic cases and leads to horrifying secrets from an even more distant past.