Redemption Prep
At an elite remote prep school, a missing girl sparks a web of secrets, suspects, and a mystery that turns strange.
First published 2020
MysteryYoung Adult
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Redemption Prep follows three students at an elite boarding school in remote Utah after Emma, one of the school’s standout pupils, disappears during a church gathering. Her boyfriend Aiden, her roommate Neesha, and Evan, a boy who has been watching her, each begin searching for answers while hiding their own secrets.
As the search unfolds, the students uncover that the school is tightly controlled, highly unusual, and full of rules, surveillance, and hidden agendas. Journals, testimonies, interviews, and shifting viewpoints reveal tensions around drugs, obsession, academic pressure, and the institution’s religious and scientific undercurrents.
What starts as a missing-person mystery gradually widens into something much stranger about the school itself and the purpose behind it. The deeper the students dig, the more they realize Emma’s disappearance may be tied to secrets far bigger than any one of them, and that not everyone wants the truth exposed.
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- Authors
- Samuel Miller
- First published
- 2020
- Genres
- Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Boarding School, Science Fiction, Dark Academia
- Subjects
- Children's fiction · Young adult fiction, school & education, boarding school & prep school · Young adult fiction, thrillers & suspense · Young adult fiction, science & nature, general · nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2020-05-03 · New York Times bestseller · Young adult fiction, thrillers & suspense, general
- ISBN-13
- 9780062662033
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