The Thoroughbreds | Book Review It’s a new school year at the elite Tiffin Academy in Massachusetts, and the seniors are elated but now the pressure is on. It's time for submitting college applications, writing college essays, and having their last hurrahs.

Eliza Ramsey, 17, and her sister Bea, 21, were flying home to Boston with their parents from Northampton on their dad’s single-engine plane. Bea had just graduated from college. Their dad was flying the plane as he had done so often. Once airborne, the plane plummeted to the ground.