Nine students. Nine buried traumas. One truth that refuses to stay buried.
At Blackwood University, Caleb Jensen and eight other students are about to learn that the things they've spent years suppressing don't just disappear. They take shape, they watch, and they wait. And when they break free, they become something else entirely: the Umbra.
Caleb and the others must learn to face their Shadow Selves before those selves consume them. But acceptance is only the first trial. Beneath the campus lies a darker truth one that pulls all nine into a deadly conflict with a secret governmental organization.
To survive they'll have to answer a question none of them are ready for: when the darkest part of you is also the most powerful, how much of it are you willing to become?
Wake them up.