FangBound: The Closed File

Eleven-year-old Adrian Vale was supposed to inherit a fortune when he turned eighteen. He never made it home from the library.He wakes under a different sky, with two moons, wolf eyes, and claws he cannot fully control. A wolf pack keeps him alive. Then the vans come, and Blackthorn Academy calls it school.Blackthorn looks like a boarding school. It is not. Letters home are rewritten. Students do not transfer. They vanish. Files close.When a kitchen boy named Rowan Nell leaves his boots under his bunk and disappears, Adrian starts asking the questions the school does not want asked. He can hear vans through the dining-hall wall. He can smell a lie. He cannot turn into a wolf-but he can choose what the claws are for.Helped by a girl who faces the door, a boy who steals bread, a lockpicker, and a top student who hates being involved, Adrian follows pepper tins, missing photos, and a list that already has his name on it.FANGBOUND: The Closed File is a middle-grade fantasy mystery about reincarnation, found family, and a boy who refuses to become the official story.A complete standalone novel for readers ages 10-13.