About three miles outside South Holland, lies Creswell-Barnes Academy, a fairly normal boarding school—normal, that is, if every boarding school teaches advanced martial arts in PE and offers extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class.
Creswell-Barnes Academy may claim to be a school for exceptional young men and women, but it's really a school for spies.
Although 16 year old Charlotte Tomlinson, sophomore, is fluent in eighteen languages and is capable of killing a man seven different ways with a number two pencil, she has no idea what to do when she comes across the new, handsome, devishly charming kid at school. Sure, she could hack into his computer, follow him through the whole school without him even noticing, or do it the old-fashioned way, by asking her older brother (Louis, who is by far the most popular boy in school) what the new boy thinks of her.
Add three scheming best friends, a suspicious (and totally hot) teacher, and a regular boy from town, and what do you have?
A total mess.
After an unfortunate event lands him in jail, a sixteen-year-old boy finds himself without options. That is, until the headmaster of a prestigious boarding school for troubled teens gives him an option that will change his life forever.
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"You're not like the others." Daria looks up at me, her green eyes warming the inner depths of my heart with ease.
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"You feel bad about what you did. Not many people here do. That's the difference between people who do bad things and people who are just evil."
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𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 🖤
"𝘛𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴" - 𝘋𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘥 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵
𝘈 𝘴𝘩𝘺, 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳.
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𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 💜
"𝘈 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦." - 𝘔𝘢𝘹 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳
𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳.
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Two teenagers seek refuge in one another in the midst of a world full of pain and hardship where darkness consumes. But where there is darkness, there is light.