All the things we don't say.
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Last published Mon, Sep 6, 2021
"What if we all told a secret?"
The night of the detention changes everything for Harvey Wallend, a 18-year-old student from small town Glyndale.
One moment, he is discussing the scary side of there relationship with his troubled best friend, Ethan Wayland; the next, watching with horror as a group of peculiar students tell there most kept secrets to one another.
The daring, yet apprehensive boy knows that his uneventful life is over. As he acquires friends at last and is reborn as the boy who has the most peculiar group of friends Glyndale has ever seen.
However, Harvey finds himself troubled by his uneventful ideals and a past he had hoped he could forget becomes overwhelmed with moral questions he doesn't yet know the answers to. Will his conscience allow him to do whatever is needed and still keep his new friends? And the one best friend he hoped never to not have by his side?
But what if for Ethan friendship would never be enough?
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