An Indie Next Pick

At an exclusive Virginia school‚ students aren’t taught history or math. They’re taught to manipulate minds‚ wielding words as weapons. The best “poets” graduate into a nameless organization of unknown purpose. Whip-smart runaway Emily Ruff is dealing three-card Monte when she’s recruited by the organization‚ and adapts quickly. Meanwhile‚ a man named Wil Parke is ambushed in an airport bathroom by men who claim he is the key to a secret war.

Thriller is a genre of fiction that is peaking in popularity and in the number and quality of titles available. In thrillers, a hero -- sometimes reluctant -- must find the resources to face down villainy against overwhelming odds.