But J is beginning to suspect that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he’s beginning to ask questions. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, but their life at the school is all they know–and all they are allowed to know. And his fellow peers are the only family J has ever had. J is one of only twenty-six students who think of their enigmatic school’s founder as their father. J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. The innovative author of Bird Box invites you into a tantalizing world of secrets and lies. And neither knows the other exists–until now.
As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know.īut J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions. J's peers are the only family he has ever had.
J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school's enigmatic founder as their father. "Josh Malerman is a master at unsettling you-and keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned."-Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds
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