The Academy

Elin Hilderbrand teams up with her daughter Shelby Cunningham for her first co-written novel, a breezy, secrets-and-scandal drama set at the fictional Tiffin Academy boarding school. When the school's shocking jump in national rankings coincides with the arrival of an anonymous gossip app called ZipZap, the campus's carefully maintained image starts to crack.

Told through the roving points of view of students and staff alike — a queen-bee influencer, a young new history teacher, a transfer student determined not to fit in, and an admissions director with unconventional methods — the book follows a single dramatic year as blind items expose one hidden life after another. It is fast-paced, multi-perspective boarding-school fiction for adult readers, first in a planned series.