Silent Graves

In the fictional nation of Valdoria, journalist Elias Vane—drawing on the methodical, document-driven style of Robert Graysmith—investigates the wrongful death of a teenager at Blackthorn Youth Academy, a behavioral facility. Simultaneously, an archaeological dig beneath the academy uncovers an eighth-century mass grave of adolescents who died by identical restraint. As archaeologists perish in bizarre accidents, the promised supernatural curse dissolves into a covert corporate cover-up, revealing a millennial pattern of institutionalized cruelty that humanity has been too slow to recognize.