A new dark academia mystery that begins a year after a studentβs mysterious disappearance when his brother finds clues that can help him and his friends solve their boarding schoolβs most elusive puzzleβand find his brother dead or alive.
Itβs been a year and a half since Sutter Heywardβs brother, Lawson, disappeared from the secluded campus of Meddlehart Academy. Everyone has given up on finding him except for Sutter, who canβt shake the feeling that heβs out there somewhere and desperately needs help to make it home.
That is, until he and his friends uncover clues that Lawson was searching for their schoolβs rumored buried treasure the night he went missing . . . and there is a secret society on campus still trying to find it. They are the Order of the Vipers. Sutter and his friends donβt hesitate to join the hunt, but they quickly realize that becoming a Viper involves dangerous initiation rituals where the risk is often greater than the reward.
With every clue and secret they uncover, Sutter knows they are one step closer to solving the mystery of his brotherβs disappearance. But as he digs closer to the deadly truth, he will discover that some things were meant to stay buried.