title: Dead Beautiful
author: Woon, Yvonne
description: ON THE MORNING OF HER SIXTEENTH BIRTHDAY, Renee Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school.
  
  All that changes when she finds her parents dead in the redwood forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.
  
  After the funeral, Renee's wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the "Crude Sciences."
  
  It's there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. Strange things begin to happen as they grow closer, but nothing can stop Renee from falling in love. It's only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried's past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems. Little does she know that Dante is hiding a secret of his own, one so big it has him fearing for Renee's life.