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[Read by Brittany Pressley] A riveting blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir -- The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep -- that presents an intimate and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within Manhattan's exclusive private-school scene in the early 1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession and the vulnerability of youth. Piper Weiss was fourteen years old when her middle-aged tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, one of New York City's most prestigious private instructors, attempted to kidnap one of his teenage students. In the aftermath, authorities discovered that this well-known figure among the Upper East Side tennis crowd was actually a frightening child predator who had built a secret torture chamber -- a ''Cabin of Horrors'' -- in his secluded rental in the Adirondacks.