Thornbridge

When a legacy student arrives at an elite New England boarding school, he discovers that his missing grandfather built a secret society to protect the origin of artificial intelligence—and that a tech billionaire will do anything to erase it.

Thornbridge Academy has stood on the Rhode Island cliffs for over two centuries. Its students wear blazers stitched with gold crests. Its traditions predate the Revolution. Its secrets run deeper than both.

Owen Brooks arrives carrying his grandfather’s ring and a lifetime of unanswered questions. Elias Brooks was a Thornbridge legend—valedictorian, lacrosse captain—and beloved by everyone who knew him.

Then he vanished.

No explanation. No goodbye. Just thirty years of silence.

Now Owen is walking the same halls, sitting in the same chapel, and discovering that beneath the school his family built their lives around lies something ancient, powerful, and worth killing for.

The truth about Thornbridge will shatter everything Owen thought he knew about his grandfather, his family, and the technology the entire world trusts without question.

Some secrets are buried for a reason.