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Genre: Mystery & Suspense
About diamants_noirWebsite: http://fantasmicons.livejournal.com Favorite novels: The Da Vinci Code, Wicked, A Separate Peace, The Persian Boy, Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, Catch-22 Favorite writers: Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Adams, Ian McEwan, Joseph Heller Favorite music: Coldplay, Dario Marianelli, The Killers, Sigur Ros, One Republic, Sia, Calogero, Rachel Portman, Paul Cantelon, Adrian Johnston Non-noveling interests: too diverse to name |
Joined: Oktober 29, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 0 NaNoWriMo buddies: 6
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Synopsis: Kayne & Abel
Dorian Kayne returns to the picturesque St. Sebastian School for boys after an unexplained absence of eight months, ready to resume his former role as the uncontested prince of the school. But a lot has changed since then:
The conflicted, insecure Arthur Abel, Dorian's best friend of seven years, seems an entirely different person. The tortured Blaine Mendel is fighting his conniving, manipulative brother Isaiah for some form of control over his own life. Deceptively serene Riley Knight no longer wants to graduate first; he just wants his friends to graduate last. Newcomer Nathaniel Green is creepy beyond all belief...and what is he doing hanging about, anyway?
Around the sleepy town of St. Sebastian, a series of unexplainable phenomena occur--including the double-murder of a single person (!)--drawing all five boys together for better or worse (perhaps mostly worse).
And above all, the mystery surrounding Dorian's sudden departure--and his even more sudden return--remains unsolved, baffling all and frustrating his on-again-off-again friend Arthur, who suspects a dark secret at its center, a secret that could be the hub of the town's wheel of misfortune. Dorian may not be the perfect person everyone takes him for.
Excerpt: Kayne & Abel
“SHUT UP,” Blaine bellowed at them all, and they fell fearfully silent in response. He held Arthur back with one gloved hand against his chest, simultaneously barring Riley from lunging by protectively standing sideways between them. Blaine looked absolutely livid; his face had flushed to the same bronzy red shade of his hair, which was standing on end as if he had just stupidly shoved a finger in an electrical socket. “Riley, calm down and fucking listen to me: you were the only one to look inside that box. You need to tell us what the hell was in there. What was in there?”
Riley gave a strange shuddering sigh that made it sound as though he were on the verge of crying in sheer lunacy. “I couldn’t tell.”
Blaine’s brows furrowed in confusion. He had expected much more than that. “What do you mean, you couldn’t tell?”
“I don’t know what it was.”
“You mean,” Arthur said ominously, angry that Riley had thrown a punch at him for nothing, “that you have no idea what you saw, and you decided to throw a fit anyway? What, did you do it for fun? You hit me for fun?”
“No,” said Riley, biting his lip. It began to bleed, and a trickle of blood ran to the corner of his mouth. He wiped it away with the back of his hand. “I mean I don’t know…what part of a person that was.”
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