Stepping into the Durant School of Dance, readers find themselves in a perpetual dance of precision, beauty, and silent tension. Sisters Dara and Marie have dedicated their lives to ballet, following the tragedy that took their parents, and now run their family ballet school together with Dara's husband, Charlie. But when a chilling incident shatters their routine as they prepare for 'The Nutcracker', it triggers a sinister unraveling of family secrets. Megan Abbott's 'The Turnout' pirouettes darkly through the corridors of ambition, familial pressure, and the oppressive confines of a ballet school, where every move counts and each misstep comes with consequences.