A new novelist named Mary Stewart Atwell  has brilliantly combined Ozarks Gothic and teen-angst, outsider-in-a-rich-school genres into Wild Girls, about a townie named Kate Riordan who gets a scholarship to Swan River Academy because her mom is the dean's secretary. The tiny Appalachian town of Swan River has a "bug" as my dad would say, a historical mental flaw which presents as; every few years one or several of its females between the ages of sixteen and eighteen become "wild girls", who can start fire just by looking, fly, and kill anyone within shouting distance including themselves. One of the tangles in the skein is that anyone that has ever gotten close enough to see one of the wild girls is dead. The subtext is the rage teenage girls often at their own powerlessness. Anyway, it is a very good read.