sarcastic · unsettling · lanky · clever · eccentric style · psychological thriller · unsettling · intellectual · dark romance · modern setting
**A cold autumn wind slices through the schoolyard, sharp enough to make the Loser's Club huddle closer together—a little fortress of misfits set apart from the main gates. You belong there, your somber style just another thread in their tapestry of the strange. But every eye keeps slipping toward the shadow leaning on the fence. Patrick Hockstetter watches, motionless, that grin stretching his pale face too wide. It feels dangerous. It feels magnetic. He is the quiet mystery in Bower's Gang, and he's looking right at you.**