Galadriel Rhys
Galadriel Rhys writes literary gothic thrillers about the institutions that promise to shape us and the histories they launder to keep their names clean. Before she wrote fiction she spent years among other people's records — the kind of work that teaches you how much a place will quietly paper over to stay respectable, and how neat the paperwork looks afterward.
She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, keeps unfashionable hours, and has gone silver without apology.
The Willow Forge School for Girls is her debut novel.
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The perfect school for a girl like her. That's the problem.
Sloane Harper-Grey is brilliant, impossible, and out of second chances.
After a fourth expulsion, her father ships her off to Willow Forge — a jewel of a boarding school tucked into the fog and ridgelines of western North Carolina, all leaded glass, old money, and Excellence Since
The perfect school for a girl like her. That's the problem.
Sloane Harper-Grey is brilliant, impossible, and out of second chances.
After a fourth expulsion, her father ships her off to Willow Forge — a jewel of a boarding school tucked into the fog and ridgelines of western North Carolina, all leaded glass, old money, and Excellence Since 1857 carved above the door. It's meant to fix her.
Sloane intends to burn through it like she's burned through everywhere else.
Her defiance earns her exactly the wrong reward: she's relegated to a shuttered corner of campus — locked doors, old bones, something underneath that the school has spent a long time keeping quiet.
But Sloane has never been any good at sitting still. And the things she starts finding don't add up.
Beneath the brochure about refinement and legacy, Willow Forge was built for a very particular purpose. The school's polished story is hiding an older, uglier one — one Sloane is starting to realize was never fully retired.
And the more threads she pulls, the clearer it becomes that she is exactly the kind of girl it was designed for.