A Perfect Mix of Secrecy, Mystery, Murder, & Revenge

Eight months after dropping out of Tarble, an all-women's college, twenty-two-year-old Ruby is still haunted by the memories of her senior year-marred by an affair with her professor and a deep depression that not only caused her to question her own sanity but prompted a failed suicide attempt.  And then a mysterious suitcase arrives, bearing Ruby's name and address on the tag. When Ruby tries to return the luggage to its rightful owner, Beth, her dorm mate at Tarble, she learns that Beth disappeared two days earlier, and the suitcase is the only tangible evidence as to her whereabouts.  Consumed by the mystery of the missing girl and the contents of the luggage-a tattered copy of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, the book on which Ruby based her senior thesis, and which she believes instigated her madness-she sets out to uncover the truth, not only about Beth Richards's past but also her own.   Amy Hansen's The Butterfly Sister is a Gothic tale that interweaves madness, betrayal, love, and literature.