Jane Mendelsohn

When a severely wounded veteran of the War in Iraq, Milo Hatch, is treated by Honor, a therapist who used to be a dancer, they both experience visions about the past, including images about a love triangle from the 1930s and an instance of forbidden love in seventeenth-century Turkey.

“It begins with a child . . .” So opens Jane Mendelsohn's powerful, riveting new novel. A classic family tale colliding with the twenty-first century, Burning Down the House tells the story of two girls. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold into the sex trade at the age of ten ; Poppy is the adopted daughter of Steve, the patriarch of a successful New York real estate clan, the Zanes. She is his sister's orphaned child. One of these young...

Sixteen year-old Beckett Warner moves to Manhattan with her father after her mother's untimely passing. She meets handsome Tobey Crawford and attends the exclusive Hamilton School. Everything seems normal until Beckett discovers that a coven of seductive women use the school as a cover for their very own fountain of youth.