Tower

The chapel tower has stood for over a century, listing slightly to the left, waiting for someone to fall. In 1978, David Hartley obliged-fifteen years old, brilliant, dead on the flagstones below. Ruled an accident. In 2024, Dr. Edmund Graves is found murdered in the school archives, his research into a memorial scholarship fund scattered around his body. He'd discovered what really happened that November night. Computational analyst James Thornton arrives to find a school in its death throes-enrollment collapsing, buildings crumbling, staff protecting secrets. As he traces patterns through decades of financial records, James uncovers blackmail, cover-ups, and conspiracy reaching from Yorkshire boarding school to London's legal establishment. Someone killed Graves to protect the truth. Someone is watching James now. And the tower still stands, waiting.