A YA Novel
Arcadian Kids
After forming a deep bond with a boy inside a strange, self-contained school, a teenage girl discovers that she and her classmates are victims of a school shooting trapped in a constructed limbo, and that the boy she loves is the one who killed her.
A school that never explains its own rules.The Manuscript
For Fans Of
The Breakfast Club meets The Lovely Bones meets Wayward Pines
The Story
A teenage girl wakes up in a school that exists outside of time. It looks normal. It feels wrong. There are rules nobody explains, gaps in memory nobody questions, and an unspoken pressure to behave, comply, and move on without ever asking from what.
She falls for Rob, a quiet, artistic boy whose gentleness is the only thing that makes sense in this place. But the closer they get, the more the world around them destabilises. Authority figures deflect. Certain memories are treated as dangerous.
Then the truth surfaces. The school is a constructed limbo for victims of school shootings. And Rob is not another victim. He is her shooter.
The only way out is to relive the moment that bound them. Not to punish. Not to forgive. Just to finally see it clearly.
What does moving on mean when love and violence come from the same place, and can truth exist without blame?
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