The Descent of Orpheus

Robert Redmond survived high school by staying invisible.As valedictorian of Valhalla High School, he watched Joey McMahon — quarterback, golden boy, untouchable — move through the world like gravity itself bent around him. When a single night of humiliation destroys Robert's carefully constructed invisibility, he vows to rebuild himself somewhere nobody knows his name.Harvard gives him that chance.But when his enigmatic roommate Brad reveals a connection to the night that broke him, Robert discovers that his humiliation was never random. Behind it lies a conspiracy older than either of them — a hidden network that has been watching, selecting, and shaping both their lives since before they were born.Now Robert must navigate a world where nothing he believed about himself is certain, where the people closest to him may be playing roles they never chose, and where the only way to survive is to understand a system designed specifically to predict him.A coming of age thriller about humiliation, identity, and what we become when the truth about our origins is more complicated than we ever imagined. Read more