The Savage Kind

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled seventeen-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She's lonely until she meets Judy Peabody...The girls become unlikely friends...drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher...When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows...Days later, her teacher returns to school altered: a dark shell of herself. On the heels of her teacher's transformation, a classmate is found dead in the Anacostia River, murdered, the body stripped and defiled with a mysterious inscription--