THE TOURNAMENT
Coming June 17 2025
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They Wish They Were Us meets Nothing Left to Tell in this young adult thriller about three girls with entangled pasts who compete for glory in their private school’s annual tournament, putting their survival skills and their relationships to the test.

Gardner isn’t like other boarding schools. There's the Survival Skills class that has students killing and gutting animals. Then there’s the Tournament.
A competition available only to seven elite seniors, the Tournament is revered by the entire student body. They’d do almost anything—including completing a series of grueling physical challenges—to win the champion’s cup.
And this year, three seniors make the Tournament more cutthroat than ever.

Max, the ruthless scholarship student who can’t afford any distractions, not even her ex-best friend Nora’s stupid confession of love at the end of last year that ruined everything between them.

Nora, who has always stepped back so Max could have everything she wanted but might just be ready for center stage now that Max has brutally excised herself from Nora’s life.

And Teddy, the last-chance transfer who will chase any high that can pull her back from the gaping, dark void inside herself that’s always threatening to drag her in.

This year, the competition is deadly. And everyone might not make it out alive...
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Praise for The Tournament:

"The pressure cooker of external expectation meets a roaring furnace of personal ambition in this Shakespearean tale [...]dark academia at its finest." Publishers Weekly Starred Review