The Monsters Club: Breaking Silence by Stephen John Paul

Julien Wilson survived Brookside High.

But surviving the Monster inside him was only the beginning.

Months after the violence that left his school shattered, Julien is still confined to Havenford Adolescent Psychiatric Institute. He barely speaks. He follows the routines. He keeps the Monster buried as deeply as he can.

Then he realizes he isn't the only one carrying something in the dark.

Ellie Goodman has spent her life learning how to be good—how to sit correctly, speak correctly, believe correctly. But something that once promised to protect her has twisted into something terrifying.

Kyle Benford hides behind jokes, charm, and a smile that makes everyone look where he wants them to look. What no one sees is how much control he may already have lost.

Together, they form a new chapter of the Monsters Club.

And Julien begins to confront a possibility more frightening than anything he faced at Brookside:

Maybe Monsters cannot be destroyed.

Maybe the only way to survive them is to stop hiding from what created them.

As the walls of Havenford close in and the darkness inside its patients begins to push into the real world, Julien must decide whether the thing he fears most about himself can become something other than a weapon.

Because Monsters grow in silence.

And sooner or later, silence breaks.