Once I thought my father had built the house on Langely Lake to keep everyone else out. But then my uncle Hank found the photographs, and I realized I had been wrong about everything.

He had built it to keep us in.

Charlie Calloway appears to have a life most people would kill for: a wealthy family, loyal friends, top gardens at an elite boarding school. When her school's super-exlusive secret society extends a mysterious invitation, she is determined to get in - whatever the cost.

But the secrets they keep are deeper and more dangherous than Charlie could ever have imagined, and implicate her family in not just one terrible crime but two. They could destroy her - or give her the answer she's always craved: who or what was behind her mother's disappearance ten years ago?