Project 016: Runaway || 1st book in project 016 trilogy.

Sometimes, life isn't what it makes out to be - especially if it was never yours to begin with.

Project 016. Missing.
In 1975, it dominated every newspaper in Indiana.
A child vanished from a government facility, leaving behind nothing but panic, rumours, and a trail that went cold within days.

No body.
No witnesses.
No answers.

For decades, the case stayed buried - a ghost story whispered only by those who remembered the lab and the horrors it hid.

Until today.

The ruins of Hawkins National Laboratory were supposed to be empty, nothing more than scorched concrete and twisted metal. But hidden deep in the debris lies a single surviving file. A file that shouldn't exist. A file that reveals where Project 016 went... and who they became.

And once the truth surfaces, nothing in Hawkins will ever be the same.

Because sometimes, you learn the hardest way that:

You can't outrun who you were made to be.

‼️TW‼️
Contains themes of trauma, fear, and past abuse related to lab experimentation.