Monster: The Perfect Boarding School Thriller to Keep You up All Night

At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she'd face. Until her brother's disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the school over Christmas with Bathory's assorted misfits. As a blizzard rages outside, strange things are afoot in the school's hallways, and legends of the mysterious Beast of Bathory � a big cat rumoured to room the moors outside the school � run wild. Yet when the girls' Matron goes missing it's clear that something altogether darker is to blame � and that they'll have to stick together if they hope to survive. Praise for C J Skuse 'CJ does it again, with a boarding school story packed with tension...Nobody captures the darkness of teenage nightmares quite like CJ Skuse.' - Sophia Bennett, author of The Look 'Fiendishly dark, with a sense of humour. CJ Skuse always inspires deep author envy' - Keren David, YA Book Prize Nominee on Monster 'It's so good, I'd recommend it to... Every girl at Bathory School has heard stories about The Beast. No one believed they were true.Until Now. 'Grisly, nail-biting fun!' - Lovereading4kids.co.uk At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she'd face. Until her brother's disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the school over Christmas with Bathory's assorted misfits. As a blizzard rages outside, strange things are afoot in the school's hallways, and legends of the mysterious Beast of Bathory – a big cat rumoured to room the moors outside the school – run wild. Yet when the girls' Matron goes missing it's clear that something altogether darker is to blame – and that they'll have to stick together if they hope to survive. Every girl at Bathory School has heard stories about The Beast. No one believed they were true. Until Now. 'Grisly, nail-biting fun!' - Lovereading4kids.co.uk