num_pages: 272
description: So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christy a boarding school for the worlds wealthiest teens the hushed truths of this strange unfamiliar land begin calling to hersometimes as lulling drumbeats in the night sometimes as piercing shrieks.One by one unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is painted across the island or why she is forbidden to cross it. Her every moveeven her performance at the school danceis graded as part of a competition to become valedictorian a title that brings rewards no one will talk about. And Anne discovers that the parents of her peers surrender million-dollar possessions to enroll their kids in Cania Christy leaving her to wonder what her lowly funeral director father could have paid to get her in and why.As a beautiful senior struggles to help Anne make sense of this cloak-and-dagger world without breaking the rules that bind him she must summon the courage to face the impossible truthand change itbefore she and everyone she loves is destroyed by it.
language: English
title: The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant
publisher: BenBella Books