Without Mercy
Lisa Jackson
Language: English
Pages: 544
ISBN: 1420102745
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
"A Juicy Creep-A-Thon. . .Builds To A Suprising Cliffhanger Ending." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
At first, it sounds like the answer to a parent's prayers: an elite boarding school in the Oregon mountains where wayward kids turn their lives around. But behind the idyllic veneer lie disturbing rumors of missing students and questionable treatments.
"A Nail-Biting Roller-Coaster Ride." –Library Journal
Jules Farentino knows her half-sister, Shaylee, has been going off the rails lately. She's just not sure Blue Rock Academy is the answer. Accepting a teaching position there lets Jules keep an eye on Shay, but also confirms her fears. One student is found hanged, another near death. Something sinister is at hand--and Jules may already be too late to stop it.
"The Book's Ending Will Throw Most Readers For A Loop." --The Free Lance-Star
As a brutal snowstorm sweeps in, cutting off the remote campus from the rest of the world, Jules will discover the Academy's dark secrets, and confront a murderous evil without limits, without remorse, without mercy. . .
“This is what you get when you go nosing around where you’re not wanted.” Spurrier grinned with a sense of satisfaction, the smile of a demon. Spurrier was behind the murders? Not Lynch? Something was wrong here. Pain pounded in Trent’s head as he clung desperately to the conscious world. The pilot’s accomplice was no big surprise, a kid Trent knew well. Tall, athletic Zach Bernsen was shoulder to shoulder with the older man. The piece of oak Trent had dropped now swung from one of Bernsen’s
cried, desperately disbelieving. “I know.” Eric wasn’t bullied. “How do you know?” Ortega demanded, sending a worried glance to Rolfe. So Ortega was the crack in the armor. Good. The anxious boy licked his chapped lips and his nerves were evident in his drawn face. “Zach could turn.” “He wouldn’t!” Missy was insistent as a bit of wind kicked up, ruffling her hair. “Don’t let this loser rattle you,” Eric advised. Trent’s eyes found Jules’s, and he saw the terror within, knew she’d read his
wasn’t certain. “I’m sure I would remember you, Mrs. Lynch,” Jules said, and sounded almost sincere. The knit of Cora Sue’s eyebrows relaxed; she seemed satisfied. “I know this interview isn’t traditional, but at Blue Rock we like to think of ourselves as family, so I ask people to interview here, rather than at the school. Let’s talk about Blue Rock. Come on into my study. Cora, dear, could you get us some coffee? Or tea?” Lynch asked Jules. “Coffee,” she said decisively. The last thing she
guardhouse was a cruiser from the Rogue County Sheriff’s Department. Stomach in knots, Jules nosed her car into a spot in the area marked STAFF and told herself everything was going to be all right. A door of the sheriff’s vehicle opened. A deputy climbed out and headed her way. Here we go, Jules thought, hoping she didn’t have to stretch the truth with the police. She cut the engine and rolled down the window, the warmth of the interior immediately chilled. The deputy was short and stocky,
everything the school has is in the file you were given.” “I got the book and the syllabus, but I thought you might give me some insight into the woman. She worked with the kids I’ll be teaching. She must have known them well.” Charla sighed. “I really shouldn’t talk about her.” So much for subtlety or beating around the bush. “Because of the lawsuit?” “That was dropped,” she snapped fiercely, then caught herself. “Just recently … It’s no secret, I guess. Maris was caught with one of the