Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in London, a chilling
gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy
Child...
A fierce and jealous ghost...
A young man's fight for his life...

The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their
distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty.
Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British
institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put
some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States.

But troubleand dangerseem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and
friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed
and is soon an outcast, spurned by nearly all his peers. And there is the
pale, strange boy who begins to visit him at night. Either Andrew is losing
his mind, or the house legend about his dormitory being haunted is true.

When the school's poet-in-residence, Piers Fawkes, is commissioned to write
a play about Byron, one of Harrow's most famous alumni, he casts Andrew in
the title role. Andrew begins to discover uncanny links between himself and
the renowned poet. In his loneliness and isolation, Andrew becomes obsessed
with Lord Byron's story and the poet's status not only as a literary genius
and infamous seducer but as a student at the very different Harrow of two
centuries priora place rife with violence, squalor, incurable diseases, and
tormented love affairs.

When frightening and tragic events from that long-ago past start to recur in
Harrow's present, and when the dark and deadly specter by whom Andrew's been
haunted seems to be all too real, Andrew is forced to solve a two-hundred-
year-old literary mystery that threatens the lives of his friends and his
teachersand, most terrifyingly, his own.

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