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academic thriller
amnesia
Author_S. Hati
boarding school
Category=YFCB
Category=YFP
Category=YFS
competitive
corruption
creepy
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gene technology
genes
memory
murder
mystery
romance
san francisco
science
spooky
the presidio
thrilling
weird science
Product details
- ISBN 9781250392855
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 135 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2026
- Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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When the Institute’s invitation arrived at my doorstep, it felt like it had been inked in my blood, sweat, and tears.
Aarya’s life plan has been set for as long as she can remember: finish high school with a bang, attend the best college she can get into, then land a prestigious biology research job. Her ticket to this dream is a one-year program at the Elizabethan Institute, the preeminent organisation for life sciences in the United States, currently on the cusp of revealing a major project that could transform the worlds of biology and medicine.
But as Aarya tries to settle in to a school with sky-high academic expectations and research cloaked in mystery, it becomes clear that someone doesn’t want her there. As the scholarship student surrounded by rich, cutthroat peers who seem all too willing to torment her, she never expected to make friends, but the notes warning her to run rattle her to her core. She finds an ally in Sofia, a mysterious girl who claims to be the subject of closed-door experiments at the Institute and begs for Aarya’s help in figuring out what the Institute is really working on.
As rumors of mutated flora and fauna in the nearby city circulate and a murder investigation rocks the Institute, Aarya will have to navigate Sofia’s growing paranoia and her own increasingly unreliable memory to determine which classmates she can trust - and which would rather see her dead.
S. Hati writes speculative fiction about brown girls in strange worlds that straddle the line between magic and science. She is the author of And the Sky Bled, a starred-review cli-fi fantasy, Morbid Curiosities, a YA thriller, and The Carousel of Forgotten Places, an adult romantasy. More information on her books can be found at www.shatiwrites.com.
