The Teacher
by Freida McFadden is a story of twisted secrets and revenge coming out in
February. The teacher referred to in the title could be Eve Bennett or her
husband Nate in this psychological thriller set in Caseham High School where
she teaches math and he teaches English. She’s a tough-as-nails, take-charge
teacher while he uses his charm and intelligence to become the most popular
teacher at Caseham, especially now that Art Tuttle was fired for messing around
with his student Addie Severson.
Eve believes her marriage is on the rocks as Nate’s
affection for her has grown cold. To fulfill the needs that are not being met
at home, she indulges in shopping for stiletto heels and having an affair with the
shoe salesman. Since both are married, they confine their relationship to the
shoe storeroom once a week.
While Eve loves teaching math, she does not love
seeing Addie’s name on her class list. Eve knows from the Tuttle scandal that
Addie cannot be trusted, she lies, she hurts people, and she destroys lives.
Worse, Addie struggles in math, having engaged Mr. Tuttle for some tutoring.
Addie has not been able to live down the scandal of
the previous school year, and she knows returning to Caseham is going to be
tough. No one befriends her, and one student in particular bullies Addie
openly. School is a living hell for Addie but when Nate encourages her poetry
writing in his English class, she finds some satisfaction. She even joins the
poetry magazine that Nate supervises, providing just the right circumstances
for the student and her teacher to enter a forbidden relationship.
When Eve encounters Addie and Nick alone in his
classroom, she snaps some photos. What if she exposes Addie’s part in a doomed
student-teacher scandal? How will Nate’s career survive? His marriage?
Freida McFadden, a writer who uses this pseudonym,
writes psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. A brain injury doctor,
she self-published her first book on Amazon in 2013. Best known for her book The
Housemaid, she lives with her family in a house overlooking an ocean.
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