Milman, Derek

At the elite Essex Academy Cal Ware, a poor, queer kid from Mississippi, is an outsider, but when he learns about a secret society on campus, he thinks that he may have found a way to reinvent himself--but as the initiation rituals grow riskier he must decide who to trust and how far he is willing to go to belong.

Seventeen-year-old Aidan finds himself alone in a fancy NYC hotel and, being young and red-blooded, he tries to hook up with someone new only to end up in a room with a corpse and a mysterious flash drive. Aidan is mistaken for the perpetrator and must go on the run from everyone--the authorities, his family, his friends, and the people now out to kill him.

"Dario Heyward knows one thing: He's never going back to Moldavia Studios, the iconic castle that served as the set, studio, and home to the cast and crew of dozens of cult classic B-horror movies. It's been three years since Dario's even seen the place, after getting legally emancipated from his father, the infamous director of Moldavia's creature features. But then Dario's brother invites him home to a mysterious ceremony involving his father and a tribute to his first film--The Curse of the Mummy's Tongue. Dario swears his homecoming will be a one-time visit. A way for him to get closure on his past--and reunite with Hayley, his first love and costar of Zombie Children of the Harvest Sun, a production fraught with real-life tragedy--and say good-bye for good. But the unthinkable happens--Dario gets sucked back into the twisted world of Moldavia and the horrors, both real and imagined, he's left there"--Provided by publisher.