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Eight months after Raxter School for Girls is sealed off by a lethal toxin, the students and teachers are ravaged one by one. Their bodies mutate, and the surrounding forest turns deadly.
Trapped on an island campus, the girls fear venturing beyond the fence—yet their only hope lies outside. Hetty, driven by the disappearance of her friend Byatt, will do anything to discover the truth about the quarantine and the hidden dangers beyond it.
A tense young‑adult thriller that blends survival horror with the isolation of a boarding school under siege.
First publish date: 2019
Genre: Young Adult Fiction/YA Science Fiction
Authors: Rory Power
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