Annika Bennett was born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she spends a lot of her time daydreaming of new worlds and characters going on adventures. When she isn’t writing, she is with her partner in varied garden centres and cafes or watching all sorts of movies with her cat while eating a whole lot of chocolate.
Grey Duncan arrives at Redshore Boarding School with a scholarship, a suitcase, and a fear he refuses to name. The gates are too black, the halls too quiet and the Headmistress Dupuis feels like a threat disguised as a smiling face. Grey’s only refuge is the piano, a private practice room reserved “for him” like a cage dressed as a privilege. Then his roommate shows up: Minho Li, loud, warm, and impossibly normal, with a hand-drawn map to keep Grey from getting swallowed by the castle’s corridors. As Grey tried to survive classes, try outs, and the sharp-edged students who circle him like prey, small things begin to slip: symbols carved into doors, whispers in stairwells, shadows moving at the treeline. Redshore exists, all right. The questions haunt: what is the price that would be extracted in exchange for the desire to fit in? Will it let Grey leave unchanged?
Grey Duncan arrives at Redshore Boarding School with a scholarship, a suitcase, and a fear he refuses to name. The gates are too black, the halls too quiet and the Headmistress Dupuis feels like a threat disguised as a smiling face. Grey’s only refuge is the piano, a private practice room reserved “for him” like a cage dressed as a privilege. Then his roommate shows up: Minho Li, loud, warm, and impossibly normal, with a hand-drawn map to keep Grey from getting swallowed by the castle’s corridors. As Grey tried to survive classes, try outs, and the sharp-edged students who circle him like prey, small things begin to slip: symbols carved into doors, whispers in stairwells, shadows moving at the treeline. Redshore exists, all right. The questions haunt: what is the price that would be extracted in exchange for the desire to fit in? Will it let Grey leave unchanged?
