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Teenager Connor Major’s summer turns disastrous when his SAT scores plummet, a meal‑delivery client dies, and a misunderstanding with his zealous mother leads to his kidnapping. He is taken to Nightlight Ministries, a secluded conversion‑therapy camp run by a shadowy director. Within its walls, both staff and other teens conceal dark secrets, and no one is truly safe. Determined to escape, Connor orchestrates a plan to free the other kidnapped youths while revealing the camp’s abusive practices to the world.
First publish date: 2020
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Queer Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Adam Sass
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