A boy-genius in 1986 faces death and a bizarre mystery to save a friend in a reality-warping adventure.
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A boy-genius in 1986 faces death and a bizarre mystery to save a friend in a reality-warping adventure.
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.
Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange—yet curiously familiar—man is following Nick, with abilities that just shouldn’...
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Teenage crush and first-love tension; mild romantic content
Knife threats, school bully, and gang conflict; non-graphic
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Includes a character coming-out subplot
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Dungeons & Dragons fantasy gaming sessions as story element
No occult or demonology content present
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Terminal cancer diagnosis; bullying; parent lost to cancer
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