Author(s): Donna Tartt

Fiction

When Richard Papen arrives at Hampden College in New England, he is quickly seduced by the rhythms of campus life--and in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured,and, at first glance, highly unapproachable. Yet as Richard is accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another; a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night when an ancient rite was brought to life..."