Six kids can change everything. Ravencrest Academy. A prestigious international boarding school full of prodigies, where students leave as diplomats and scientists and people who will change the world. But it's also a normal high school with drama and gossip and friends and fun. Until it isn't. When Aiden wakes up with no recollection of the past nine months, he finds himself in an entangling mystery concerning the lives of the students at Ravencrest Academy. But it's more than frightening emails and terrifying rumors-no, it's something much more sinister. Something ruthless. Something slowly rising, ready to strike. But what could it be? Why would anyone target the smartest students in the world? Could it be that there's more to Ravencrest Academy than meets the eye? Could it be that everything he knew about his past-about his home-about his family-wasn't the full truth? There's only one way to find out. And it's not going to be easy for him or the five students he recruits who somehow find themselves protecting the world from a force that threatens to destroy it all. But only time can tell whether the Hall Monitors of Ravencrest Academy will rise to the challenge. Rachel Joel is a high school senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She won a national competition in Duke TIP for her writing in fourth grade. Shortly afterward, in sixth grade, she published her first book: the novella The Famous Miller and Smith Detective Agency. In eighth grade, she was declared State Champion of Narrative Writing in the Quill competition, which is sponsored by the North Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities. Recently, she published her first short story collection: It's a Small World. She loves the humanities and science, and she hopes to make a difference in the world in both fields. In her free time, she loves to read, listen to music, bake, and spend time with her family and friends. Most of all, she loves to share her immense imagination with the world through storytelling.