From Lake Champlain to the Kuyahoora Valley, all truths are masked.

The broken are not always weak. The quiet are not always safe.

Identities are woven in blood. Prophecy breathes on the Wynde.

She doesn't scream. She doesn’t break. She disappears.

Jane Dora Smith has spent most of her life surviving in silence—hidden behind a name that doesn’t fit. Barely living in a foster home, where bruises bloom quietly and crying out makes things worse, she’s just another forgotten file in a system built on institutionalized neglect. Autistic, abused, and alone, she’s hyperfocused on one thing: making it through the day.

Until a note in her locker offers a clue to her real identity: Emella Mallory Grauer.

Emory.

Pushed to her breaking point, she runs. From foster care. From shame. From Abuse. From being Jane.

Drawn by a strange pull through the Adirondack wilderness Emory finds herself on the doorstep of Fairfield Academy—a secluded boarding school hidden in plain sight, whispered about in government hallways, conspiracy chat rooms, and therapy sessions.

It claims to be a sanctuary for neurodivergent prodigies. What it really is, and what hides behind those iron gates, is older. Blood deep. Cursed.

Emory doesn’t want power. She wants quiet. Safety. Maybe even connection. Facing trials that bring life or death, she forges powerful bonds with fellow Outcasts—students woven of neurodivergent threads and supernatural bloodlines—who, like her, bear the scars of lived, perceived, and generational trauma.

She thought survival was the end of the story.
It was only the beginning.

In a world of supernatural beings and buried legacies, Emory is forced to confront the one thing she never wanted to be: seen. Her name isn't just a name. Her past isn’t entirely human. And the prophecy in her blood is breaking free.

Guided by Teiotséntha, the Moon-Wolf Guardian, a Haudenosaunee legend, she must learn to wield powers she never asked for in a world that was never built for her. To survive, she must face ritual trials, and ancestral secrets—also, the people who destroyed her family are still in power—a Council that sees her very essence as a  blight on their belief in purity politics. They want her silenced...permanently.

She endures.

She doesn’t scream—until she does.