The Maybury Castle

Fifteen-year-old Jack Walters thought his biggest problem was forgetting his English homework—until a strange vibration began to move through his body, shattering windows and flickering lights around him. Alongside his friend Adam Johnson, Jack is abruptly drafted into the Maybury Defense Program, a secret military organization hidden within the ancient stone walls of Maybury Castle. Inside the fortress, the boys discover they are no longer viewed as students, but as assets". Under the stern command of the castle’s founder, Frank Maybury Smith, they must learn to "synchronize" their rare energy, known as resonance, with the castle's ancient and mysterious defense systems. The stakes of their training are chillingly clear: beside the castle’s dark moat lie rows of wooden boxes containing the "failed" trainees who didn't survive the process. As a dangerous exile named Roratic gathers his forces to strike at the power hidden beneath the castle, Jack and Adam find themselves caught in a web of military secrets and classified experiments. Guided by the enigmatic Kai Reeves, they begin to question everything they have been told. In a place that feels more like a prison than a school, Jack and Adam must master the power within them before they are turned into weapons for a war they never started.