Retro

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What starts off as a lighthearted competition to live without modern technology for a year turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York Times bestselling author Jarrod Shusterman and debut author Sofa Lapuente.

It was never meant to happen this way.

Things were never supposed to get this out of hand.

After a cyberbullying incident at her school goes viral, Luna Iglesias finds herself at the heart of a brewing controversy. When the social media company Limbowho are also implicated in the scandalsweeps in with an offer that sounds like an opportunity to turn over a new leaf and receive a scholarship to the college of her dreams, shes happy to jump on the new trend. Its called the Retro Challenge, where contestants live without modern technology, wear vintage clothes, party as if the future werent already written, and fall in love as if they were living in a movie.

At first, the challenge is fun. But then things get dangerous. Kids start disappearing, including Lunas friends. There are voices in the woods. Bloodred markings on the trees. And Luna increasingly begins to wonder if all these strange happenings are connected with the Retro Challenge.

Secrets. Lies. Betrayal. The weight of her family on her shoulders. Theres so much on the line for Luna, not to mention shes falling in love with the last guy she expected. Unless she can figure out the truth behind whos sabotaging the challenge, the next person to disappear may be Luna herself.

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Sofa Lapuenteis an author, screenwriter, and avid world traveler who immigrated from Spain to the United States torealize her dream of storytelling. Since then, she has received a masters degree in fine arts at UCLA, worked as a producer and casting director on an Emmy nominated show, and received coauthor credits inGleanings,the fourth installment of the bestsellingArc of a Scythe trilogy, with her partner, Jarrod. Together, thecouple writes and produces film and television under their production company Dos Lobos Entertainment.

Jarrod Shustermanis theNew York Timesbestselling coauthor of novelDry, which he is adapting for a major Hollywood film studio with Neal Shusterman. He is also the coauthor of the accoladed novelRoxy.His bookshave all received critical acclaim and multiple starredreviews.SofiLapuente and Jarrod are partners in every sense of the word, with love and multiculturalism as an ethosliving between Madrid, Spain, and Los Angeles, California. If they are not working, it means theyre eating. For behind-the-scenes author content and stupidly funny videos, follow them on Instagram and TikTok @SofiandJarrod.