From the cover:
"Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
No matter the cost."
It's hard to put a description of this book into words because it was so damn weird. In a good way, but still...weird. Nancy arrives at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children and is still struggling to navigate the school and the differences in all the magical worlds of her fellow students when "tragedy strikes" in the form of her roommate being murdered in the middle of the night, found the next morning with her hands cut off. (Yeah, that's right...that shit really snuck up on me. Warning for my fellow squeamy squeamish people out there.) Full of fear and suspicion, students begin turning against each other as things at the school go from bad to worse. Nancy and her new friends must stick together and weather the accusations of their classmates as they try to stay alive long enough to find out who is really at the bottom of the school's problems.
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