| "A sister lost, a truth buried, but the past always demands its due"
"Meave Cormac and Liam Wood have spent years at each others throat-grades, clubs, leadership, and pure ego. They don't talk unless it's to gloat, and their only real relationship is stealing Student of the month from each other.
But then, Meave stops fighting.
Her grades slip, she skips clubs, and Liam-winning too easily hates it. he corners Meave multiple times, who finally snaps: her sister is missing, the police won't help, and she's out of options. But she has to wait.
Until she realizes she can't.
She starts digging-and, of course, Liam shows up.
From there, it's chaos. Clues, dead ends, breaking rules, dragging in unexpected help.
Tensions rise, secrets unravel, and the deeper they go, the worse it gets.
But one thing is clear: they can't stop now.
And somewhere along the way, they stop being just rivals."
They told her Varium was an opportunity. A place for gifted students. A second chance. Safe. Elite
They didn't mention the screams after dark.
Or the students who vanish like fog.
Or the feeling that something-someone-is watching.
Aurora Walker doesn't remember the night her parents died. But whatever killed her past might have followed her to Varium.
Now, bodies are showing up. The school calls it suicides.
Aurora knows better.
She's seen the way the walls bleed when no one's looking. She's heard the voices on the island...and under it
And worst of all?
She's beginning to trust the one person she hates the most-Adam, her cold, arrogant classmate with secrets in his smile and blood on his hands.
As the deaths grow harder to ignore, Aurora isn't the only one asking questions. Teaming up with her roommate Chiara, and her friends Willow and James, they keep digging into secrets no one wants unearthed.
Together, they're starting to see Varium for what it really is.
Not a school. A trap. Stuck on an island with no outside connections with a killer who's kills are ruled as suicides
Something is hunting them.
And the deeper they dig, the more the island begins to dig back.