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Sixteen-year-old Isaiah Walker did not mean to get exiled to England.
After a rumour back home in Utah turns his life inside out, Izzy is sent to Ashcombe Hall: a damp, old-fashioned boarding school full of uniforms and rules nobody has bothered to explain.
His new roommate, Robbie McAllister, is local, blunt and annoyingly difficult to ignore. He ties Izzy's school tie properly, plays rugby like violence is a language, and seems determined to be kind only when no one is looking.
Izzy is supposed to keep his head down. Robbie is supposed to stay focused. Neither of them is supposed to become a problem.
Unfortunately, Ashcombe Hall is very good at making boys worse.
A 1990s queer boarding school slow burn about first love, repression, class, religious guilt, rugby boys, bad decisions, and the mortifying ordeal of wanting someone you have to see at breakfast.
Mature themes later. Updates weekly.