librarians note an alternate cover edition can be found hereat a new england boarding school a sex scandal is about to break even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape a pandoras box of revelations the tape triggers a chorus of voicesthose of the men women teenagers and parents involved in the scandalthat details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work anita shreve delivers in testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller no one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions