Ferry_Caddy
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Frankie's trick has always been simple: watch everyone else closely enough, and nobody ever thinks to watch you.
It works until an exam, when a note appears under his foot that was never meant to be an answer key. A name he doesn't know. Four words underneath it that he can't stop reading:
He knows what happened.
Frankie tells himself it's nothing. He's wrong.
Within weeks, there's a torn page from his own notebook, stolen from a bag he never let out of his sight. A photograph of Frankie and his five closest friends, taken from an angle none of them noticed, stamped with one word: Vulnerable. Then a blackout traps all six of them inside a locked classroom, and a voice over the PA calmly announces that phase one is complete.
Someone has been studying them. Watching which of them trusts too easily, which one fights, which one freezes. Someone who knows the school well enough to move through it unseen. Someone who knows things about Frankie's family that Frankie doesn't know himself.
He's built his whole identity around being the quiet one in the back row, the boy who watches and writes everything down and never gets close enough to anyone to be hurt by it. That version of Frankie doesn't survive this book.
Now the five people he's finally started to trust are in danger, and observation isn't enough to protect them. He'll have to step out from behind the notebook and become someone they can trust in return.
But Frankie still doesn't know what happened, or why these six were chosen.
And the more he searches for that answer, the more he begins to suspect that someone wants him looking in exactly the wrong direction.
Book One: The Power of Silence, the first installment in The Enigmatic Mysteries of Frankie, is a YA mystery-thriller about secrets, surveillance, and what happens when the person who's always watching finally gets watched back.