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The daughter who came home from Vermont's prestigious Harstead Institute is polite, composed, and healed—everything Wendy and Gordon Messner prayed for. She's also not their child. Small wrong notes accumulate: a lullaby misremembered, a lifelong allergy mysteriously vanished, sleep patterns belonging to a stranger. Somewhere behind Harstead's gates, the real Colette may still be alive, and the girl sitting at their kitchen table may be something far worse than troubled. Some cures should never be trusted.