The Letting Go

Everyone Emily has ever loved has been brutally murdered. The killer has never been caught, but Emily knows whos responsible. She is. Its the only possible explanation. Emily is the one thing all the victims have in common, which can only mean that someoneor somethingis killing them to make her suffer. Determined never to subject another person to the same horrible fate as her parents, friends, and pets, Emily sequesters herself at a private boarding school, keeping her classmates at a distance with well-timed insults and an unapproachable air. Day after day, she loses herself in the writing of Emily Dickinsonthe poet makes a perfect friend, since shes already dead. Emilys life is lonely, but its finally peaceful. That is, until two things happen. A corpse appears on the steps of the school. And a new girl insists on getting close to Emilyunknowingly setting herself up to become the killers next victim.