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You Belong Here<\/p>\n
Our tale technically revolves around two women, but it\u2019s fair to say it\u2019s three women \u2014 because Beckett Bowery is a key character, having gone to Wyatt 20 years ago and having maybe been involved in something absolutely horrid. And now here she is again as her daughter Delilah enrols for first year at Wyatt.<\/p>\n
American author Megan Miranda has been writing murder mysteries and young adult novels since 2011. The general rule in such books is that everyone is lying and everyone has secrets.<\/p>\n
Well, sure, all of us have secrets, but ask your book club for a show of hands: how many have a secret that could get them murdered? Or how many have a secret for which they would murder to protect it \u2014 and how many have murdered to protect their secret? Granted, there\u2019s little chance you\u2019ll get a straight answer to that last one.<\/p>\n
Whatever awful thing happened decades ago on the ivy-covered campus affected so many lives.<\/p>\n
Beckett is a single mother, though Delilah\u2019s father Trevor is a really nice guy who has a terrific relationship with his daughter. He still rues his reaction when Beckett announced she was pregnant. No do-overs, guy.<\/p>\n
Wyatt is a private school, with tuition way out of the reach of most of the young people in the mountain town. The students are, like, totally snooty in their contempt for the barely-literate hillbillies.<\/p>\n
Beckett got into Wyatt because both her parents were profs, which entitled her to free tuition.<\/p>\n
A huge plot point is a hazing tradition called The Howling, occurring when the first winds of winter blew down from the mountains and howled through the forest surrounding campus. Just work with Miranda on this one, all right?<\/p>\n
It was supposedly limited to students, but the townies knew all about it and knew the woods better than the students did. Cue the ominous music.<\/p>\n
That fateful night, two townie louts snuck around for motives mysterious and somehow got locked in the tunnels under the campus. Beckett\u2019s weird roommate set a fire and the two men burned to death; the roommate scarpered, never to be seen again. <\/p>\n
The police and the town believed Beckett had aided and abetted both the murders and the getaway, though she denied everything. Lack of evidence, but the school kicked Beckett out, and legends grew.<\/p>\n