A haunting novel of obsession and betrayal, told by a man who may have committed an horrific act of violence: The Secret History meets Notes on a Scandal.
A dark, sinuous and compelling novel about marriage and obsessive love. Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married man confesses to a more serious crime: he has had a passionate affair with a scholarship student called Betsy Pappas. But when she switches her attentions to a classmate, Arthur's passion for her turns, by degrees, into something far darker.
