The Secret History

Description for THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt: Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life--in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable. Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another.... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life ... and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning....