Simon Says

Two brilliant young prodigies collide in a high-stakes battle over truth, art, and identity.

Aspiring young artist, Charles Weston has enrolled in a private arts high school soley to meet the "famous" Graeme Brandt, a student whose recently published novel touched a chord deep within Charles.

Determined to keep his own visionary canvases locked away from hostile eyes, Charles hides his oils behind a heavy hasp lock on the studio door. But Graeme is not at all what Charles expected, and soon the two teen prodigies are drawn into a clash of wills that threatens to destroy them both.

Instead of finding a fearless mentor, Charles discovers a peer crippled by expectations. Behind locked studio doors, guarded truths give way to a fierce private battle as Graeme wrestles with an empty screen and an impossible second novel.

At Houston’s prestigious arts academy, survival means playing everyone else’s game—or risking everything to break the rules.

• Dark Academia: Set inside Houston’s elite Whitman High School for the Arts, where teenage painters, writers, and composers hone their crafts behind locked studio doors.
• Forced Proximity: Rooming with Adrian, a charismatic openly gay composer, pushes Charles to confront his defensive masks and the fear of letting anyone hear his real thoughts.
• Creative Prodigies: While Graeme Brandt struggles under the crushing pressure of following up a bestselling debut, Charles guards canvases he refuses to let teachers or classmates inspect.
• Coming of Age: Navigating school journal assignments, ruthless campus critics, and parental ultimatums forces both boys to decide who they are when the applause stops.
• Also by This Author: Counterfeit Son.

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