While We Were Silent

<p><strong><em>Devastating secrets shroud the campus of Green Dell Academy, secrets that some think are worth killing for . . . From Lambda Literary Award finalist Alex Myers comes a provocative dark academia novel.</em></strong></p> <p><em>There are rules and then there’s reality . . .</em></p> <p><em>Autumn, 2015. </em>Green Dell Academy is a prestigious co-ed prep school tucked away in a quiet corner of Connecticut. And although it has its first female head of school, it’s still very much a boys’ club—a club with longstanding “traditions” that involve gross misconduct—and now murder.</p> <p>A woman has been killed, right on campus, a woman who has been deeply involved in fighting sexual violence, a woman who had no shortage of enemies.</p> <p>The murder case, coupled with an investigation into allegations of sexual assault, threatens to bring dark, deep-rooted secrets to the surface, the kind of secrets that go back decades—and some people seem to value the old ways more than human life . . .</p> <p><strong>For fans of Rebecca Makkai’s <em>I Have Some Questions For You</em> and Ashley Winstead’s <em>In My Dreams I Hold a Knife</em>. Written by the current teacher at an American school academy, Alex Myers brings to life a thought-provoking and deeply relevant story.</strong></p>