Main Characters 1. Lia Monroe - The birthday girl. Quiet, artistic, recently diagnosed with something life-changing. She's keeping a secret. 2. Eli Rivera - Her best friend since childhood. Loyal, funny, hiding feelings for Lia he's never confessed. 3. Rae Carter - Lia's older sister. Protective, bitter, struggling to accept what's happening. 4. Ms. Monroe (Clara) - Lia and Rae's mom. Emotionally distant since their father died. Blames herself. 5. Jordan Hale - The ex-boyfriend who left without a word. Shows up uninvited on Lia's birthday. --- Close Friends / Extended Circle 6. Tess Barlow - The loud, chaotic bestie. Always the comic relief, but cracks when things get too real. 7. Noah Liu - The quiet, observant one. Takes photos of everything. Knows more than he lets on. 8. Mina Shah - Former best friend turned stranger. They haven't spoken in months. There's a reason. 9. Grayson "Gray" Bennett - Eli's cousin. New to town, charming, stirring up old drama. 10. Dr. Alina Rhodes - Lia's therapist. Appears only in flashbacks or journal entries. Voice of reason.

A prestigious but strange boarding school hidden deep in the woods, isolated from the outside world. Students are handpicked and no one knows why. Main Character: Kai, a sarcastic, smart but trouble-prone transfer student. Just trying to survive the year. Aria, the perfect student who knows too much. Mr. Gray, the overly calm teacher who never blinks. Zeke, the paranoid conspiracy theorist student. Core Mystery: Weird things start happening the moment Kai arrives-like hallways changing, students vanishing for a day then coming back "off," secret rooms, cryptic school rules like "Never enter Room 306," and a hidden club of students investigating the truth. Big Twist Ideas: The school is a front for a secret experiment. Time runs differently here-students never age. The staff are something... not human. Students are being trained for something way darker than education.