Description
Praised by Liz Moore, Stacy Willingham and starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, Night Objects is a suspenseful mystery set on the windswept coast of Washington State and inside a boarding school steeped in privilege, tradition and deadly secrets.
Lenny Winter is fifteen years old when she moves with her parents to an ageing houseboat off the rugged coast of Washington. She imagines a quiet life spent charting constellations and chasing her dream of becoming an astronomer. Instead, a sudden tragedy shatters her world and sends her to Blanchard, a renowned boarding school for the Pacific Northwest’s elite.
Blanchard is dazzling, insular and haunted by its own legends. At its centre is the Pascalianum Club, a secret society known to shape the school’s greatest and most notorious students, with influence that reaches far beyond campus walls. Hungry to belong, Lenny is drawn into its orbit, even as she senses that the club feeds on the vulnerabilities she is desperate to hide.
As privilege collides with grief and loyalty warps into obsession, Lenny’s choices lead to a murder investigation that tests every story she tells herself about guilt, power, hope and who she is becoming.
Sweeping, suspenseful and deeply moving, Night Objects is both a gripping mystery and a profound coming-of-age story about what we risk when the need to belong eclipses everything else.
