There's something bad happening in Dryden. When Lise Daniels collapses to the floor during math class, a cloud of fear and speculation settles over the school. Parents and teachers scramble to protect the students, but how do you stop what you can't contain? Because Lise, beautiful Lise, is only the first: one by one the girls become victims, betrayed by their bodies, becoming strangers to themselves. As hysteria swells, secrets will spill, and the safe world we've been building for our children will start to come apart. 'Nerve-shredding, noirish plots, creeping tension and deep characterisation . . . The best writer of contemporary thrillers working today' Independent on Sunday 'If the phenomenon that led to the Salem Witch trials were to revisit the world today, it might very well look like the scenario in Megan Abbott's engrossing, disturbing, panic attack of a novel, The Fever. It's impossible to put down' Jodi Picoult 'Megan Abbott is a unique talent . . . her best novel yet' Los Angeles Times