The Merciless King of Moore High

In Brockton, Connecticut, the adults have transformed into gigantic, bloodthirsty monsters. Nine months after this change, students at Jefferson High remain barricaded inside their school. The setting combines an ordinary school community with a supernatural threat, placing young people behind school doors while monstrous adults remain beyond them. Lily Sparks’s novel presents a school-bound survival situation shaped by sudden transformation and confinement.