The Headmaster

Tiffany Reisz

A down-on-her-luck young teacher named Gwen wakes up injured at a secluded, old-fashioned all-boys boarding school in Appalachia and is offered a trial position teaching literature. She's quickly drawn to the school's reserved, old-world headmaster, Edwin Yorke, even as she notices a silent woman in white wandering the grounds at night. As Gwen falls for Edwin and the strange, comforting rhythms of the school, she begins uncovering secrets about the academy's past that recontextualize everything she thought she knew. It's a short gothic romance that blends swoony, steamy chemistry with a ghostly mystery and a twist ending.