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2025 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA Mystery
A brilliant but isolated teen. A brother he never knew existed. A secret that could shatter everything.
For fans of Neal Shusterman and Patrick Ness.
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“Exquisitely rendered.”
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“Atmospheric and suspenseful… maintaining an edge-of-the-seat tension until the very last words.”
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