"The Edge of Quiet"🌒

Genre: Dark Academia | Psychological ✦
Thriller | Coming-of-Age | Mystery | Slow Burn Romance
Tagline: This isn't a school. It's a mirror-and some of us aren't ready to see what we are.

They said it was just a school. But then the walls began to whisper.

Seventeen-year-old Elara Syed never wanted attention. A scholarship kid with a quiet voice and observant eyes, she enters St. Edevane's Boarding Institute expecting strict rules, elitist classmates, and endless exams.

What she doesn't expect is silence so thick it hums in her bones.

From the moment she steps past the ivy-covered gates, something feels off. Whispers slip beneath dorm room doors. Footsteps echo down hallways that lead nowhere. There are rules-but none of them are written. And those who question too loudly? They vanish.

Elara's only plan is to survive, blend in, and get out. But when she finds a red thread tied to her locker and a page from a missing girl's journal, she knows it's already too late for that.

Then there's Aaran Halbrook, the school's golden boy with perfect grades and dead eyes. He's always surrounded by people but never truly with them. He watches her. Not with cruelty-but with recognition. Like he's seen someone like her before. Like he knows she shouldn't be here either.

When Elara finds a matchbook with a symbol, opens a hidden door in the library, and wakes up with dirt under her fingernails after dreaming of a forbidden floor-she realizes this school isn't what it seems.

It never was.

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✧ 𝘈 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥.

But what if the gift is surviving trauma?

✧ 𝘈 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴.

But what if the shadows are watching?

✧ 𝘈 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴.

But what if she's the answer someone else has been trying to hide?

St. Edevane is no ordinary school-it's a cover. Be