Wilder Girls

Wilder Girls is a gripping young adult horror and dystopian novel set on a quarantined island where the Raxter School for Girls has been isolated by a mysterious illness called the Tox. The disease causes strange, painful bodily transformations in the students and turns the surrounding woods wild and dangerous. When Hetty's friend Byatt goes missing, Hetty breaks quarantine to find her, uncovering a deeper conspiracy about the Tox and their supposed rescue. This book explores themes of survival, intense female friendships, bodily autonomy, and environmental decay, making it suitable for mature teen readers aged 14 and up who enjoy atmospheric horror and thought-provoking science fiction.

**IT'S BEEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS** since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. This description comes from the publisher.