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The Stratford Endgame
Project type
Upper YA Novel / 99K words
Date
2025
Location
Charleston, SC
Synopsis
A YA-retelling of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO set in an elite Charleston boarding school, THE STRATFORD ENDGAME follows Sloane Bowman and her quest for justice for her beloved sister, Grace.
Briana Sutherland had everything a kid growing up in the seaside town of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina could want — a childhood filled with books, a best friend named Elliot and his toothless dog Simon, and Grace, her charismatic older sister whom she loved more than anyone in the world. Briana Sutherland had everything… until she didn’t.
Until the night after homecoming when Briana’s sister came home in tears and their family’s lives changed forever. Grace was drugged and assaulted by the mayor’s son, Oliver Jackson, one of Stratford Academy’s most connected students. But he didn’t do it alone — six people used their wealth, influence, and power to help Oliver elude justice. Six people whose names Briana Sutherland could never forget as she watched, helpless, as her family fell apart.
Helpless… until she wasn’t.
Six years later, as Sloane Bowman starts her senior year at the nation’s most prestigious boarding school, Stratford Academy in Charleston, South Carolina, nothing can stop her from exacting her own brand of justice. But what starts out as a mission to take down her ‘Stratford Six’ turns complicated when she discovers that her first crush and childhood love, Elliot, attends the very same school she’s intent on destroying.
How far will Sloane go to infiltrate Stratford Academy and manipulate the lives of her classmates? And what happens when she must choose between her quest for justice and the boy she could never forget?
