Emily M. Danforth - Plain Bad Heroines

1902, BROOKHANTS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS:

Students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with The Story of Mary MacLane, the scandalous debut memoir by nineteen-year-old MacLane. A few months later they are found dead in the woods after a horrific wasp attacked, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies, within five years the school is closed. But not before three more people die on the property, each in a troubling way.

Over a hundred years later, Brookhants opens its door once more, when a crew of young actresses arrive to film a high-profile move about the rumoured Brookhants curse. And as past and present become grimly entangled, its soon impossible to tell quite where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins…