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Midnight Semester
Paperback
Publisher: Ethan Ross
Published: Dec 22 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the winter of 2025, the world finally achieved perfection-and it was a graveyard.
At the elite St. Jude's Academy, students are forbidden from using personal devices. In their place is the Echo, a revolutionary social interface that maps their thoughts, optimizes their joy, and archives their memories. But scholarship student Anya Thorne soon realizes the cost of Syncing. Students aren't just graduating; they are being Withdrawn-replaced by digital shadows that live on in the network long after their physical selves have vanished.
When her roommate Sarah disappears, leaving behind a frantic, hand-written diary and a trail of digital static, Anya is thrust into a global conspiracy. From the Gothic, ivy-covered walls of St. Jude's to the liquid-cooled server-cities of Manhattan and the radioactive silence of the Mojave Desert, Anya must lead a ragtag resistance of the Uncalibrated.
Armed with only an analog manual override key and the messy, disorganized power of human memory, Anya and the crew of the Static-a rusted oil tanker turned floating fortress-must confront the Archive's final goal: the Hard-Reset.
As the line between the physical and the digital dissolves, Anya faces a terrifying choice: accept a perfect, painless dream, or fight for a reality that is cold, broken, and undeniably real.
The Noise is just beginning.
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