Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.

"1902, the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara are obsessed with each other and with Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. The girls establish their own private club and call it the Plain Bad Heroine Society. Their bodies are discovered in a nearby apple orchard, with a copy of Mary's book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Within five years three more people die on the property--and...

Idlewild Hall is a boarding school in Vermont for girls who don't fit in; there are rumors the school is haunted. In 1950, four roommates bond over their whispered fears, and budding friendship, until 1 of them disappears. 64 years later, Fiona, sister of a murdered Idlewild girl returns to write a story about the school. Though her sister's boyfriend was was convicted of the crime 20 years ago, Fiona has always felt there was something suspicious...