When Ines enrolls in the elite and mysterious Catherine House, she does so in a desperate rush to escape dark secrets. Little does she know that, beneath the crushed velvet curtains and brushed silk walls, Catherine House is hiding a few secrets of its own. Students who walk these gothic halls are tacitly complying to an experiment unlike any mankind has seen before--and the consequences could be ominous. Elisabeth Thomas' debut novel is as captivating as it is thought-provoking.