Coincidentally (or is it?), Grace, her mother with whom she has a strained relationship, asks Connie to clean up and get ready to sell Grace's mother's home in Marblehead, Mass., a town near the more famous town of Salem.
Although it is only a minor part of her specialty, she is drawn into a study of witchcraft and the famous Salem witch trials. Her specialty is early American colonialism. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St.Connie Goodwin is a doctoral candidate at Harvard. Inspired by true events-from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school- Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen-who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit-comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . 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. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery- Prep meets The Crucible.
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