5 STAR READS

After a scandal breaks out in her school, Magdalena is sent to spend the summer with her grandparents to recover. Over-medicated, she spends her days hiking and having picnics in the woods behind her grandparents’ house.

When a boy her age Bo stumbles across her picnic blanket, Magda starts believing she might be able to move on from her past and finally feel something despite her medicine. But there’s something odd going on in this town, and when a body is found in the woods near Bo’s forest home, it’s clear that Magdalena’s nightmare is just beginning.

Enthusiastic fifteen-year-old Vanessa becomes entangled in an affair with Mr. Strane, her forty-two-year-old teacher.

Several years later amid more and more allegations against him, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, convinced her teenage self willingly got involved in their relationship, or change her judgement of their past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love with the man who has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager is so much different from what she has always believed?

Aging Hollywood movie star Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. In Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, the interviewer listens in fascination as the actress tells her story from making her way to the big screens to her decision to leave show business and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. Evelyn reveals a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life connects with her interviewers own in a tragic and irreversible way.