The Problem With Wade Turner: Off Script

di Lucas Dridik (Autore)

Lucas Dridik, 2026

Lee Parker knows exactly who he is. Straight-A student. Class representative. Reliable son. Attentive boyfriend. He built his senior year like an architect builds a bridge — every beam calculated, every detail load-bearing, nothing left to chance. Golden's Gate High is his territory, and he knows every inch of it: the water stain shaped like Florida near the chemistry lab, the locker that sticks every October, the precise second Mrs. Halloway appears when you're late. He does not know what to do with Wade Turner. Transferred from a school he burned through like the rest — and there were many — Wade arrives with a leather jacket, a cigarette, a scar along his jaw, and a posture so deliberately unbothered it reads like a provocation. When the principal slides a folder across his desk and asks Parker to help the new student acclimate, Parker opens the file and already knows: this is going to be a problem. He's right. He just doesn't know what kind. Because the problem isn't the cigarette smoked in the hallway. It isn't the string of schools Wade left in ruins, or the way he looks at every rule like it's personally offended him. The problem is the way Parker can't stop looking. The way Wade's voice, low and unhurried and always loaded with something just out of reach, starts to sound like a frequency he keeps accidentally tuning into. The problem is that the more Parker tries to keep Wade at arm's length — out of duty, out of reason, out of sheer survival — the more the distance shrinks. Then three dead rats appear hanging inside a locker, and Golden's Gate, that peaceful, carefully ordered world, remembers that it has a pulse. And that pulses can be interrupted. Off Script is the story of the first fracture. Of a boy who thought he knew exactly who he was — until someone arrived who had never read the script, and set it on fire just by existing.

• Autore: Lucas Dridik
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Lucas Dridik
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235873476