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Thirteen-year-old Elle is EleMent03, a secret YouTube gaming star with hundreds of thousands of followers. But when a mysterious user named BadShadou starts leaving personalized messages in videos (messages only she can see), Elle's digital life takes a dark turn.
The Snapchats come next. Then the impossible truths: Shadou is an alien. He's holed up beneath Mount Rainier. And he's guarding something ancient and terrible that's starting to wake up.
Three years later, at sixteen, Elle has reinvented herself as a celebrated teen coding prodigy. But when that ancient evil finally breaks free from its prison beneath Mount Rainier, Elle must face the destiny she's been running from.
🎮 Want to try your hand at Elle's coding skills? Play Buzzle Jump — inspired by the addictive puzzle game Elle created in the book!
Short fiction I write between novels — optional, free, and thematically connected to my books.
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On a gentrifying island, a restaurant owner collects genetic profiles to create perfect meals for the wealthy, until the technology he normalized becomes a weapon.
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In a retrofuture 1980s, the drama of teenage life takes center stage in a small Oregon town where performance and reality blur.
Capulet Poehner grew up reading classic sci-fi and fantasy, always wanting to write but never quite finding his voice. He finally did—by reading a lot, writing every day, and learning to just be himself on the page.
He lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington—the same Bainbridge Island where Bad Shadou is set. The ferry Elle rides? He rides it too.