The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls - Tapa dura

Thea Atwell is fifteen when, following a scandal, she is sent to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrian prowess. It's a world so rarified as to be rendered immune to the looming Depression, and all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots...