Publisher's Synopsis
In the wake of a burning civilization, a school is created, one led by the most powerful man alive. This man seeks out Icarus, a young would-be highschooler who failed his last few tests and is on the verge of being held back. Icarus is given a choice, an option to be one of the many first students to try an alternate form of education hoping to shake up traditional schooling. If he accepts, he'll find a world that will become more unlike his with every passing moment, this, while developing a deeper understanding of an unknown presence that's been bounded to him for life. Join Icarus and friends as they uncover the many mysteries surrounding the schools creation, existence, and purpose, while they find out the reasoning behind the disappearance of their peer, or become lost themselves.
Cruising through the Atlantic Ocean, the students of Wilbur High find themselves isolated from the rest of the world. Away from their families, friends, and homes, they make bonds with each other, and pour all attention into their schoolwork. In any case at least, that was the reasoning behind the separation. The swaying of young students to part from their homes grants them the opportunity to challenge and change an evolving system, one which's rules have not yet been so clearly defined. After some students take it too far, a bumbling man becomes warden of the ship. A man with a dark history who paints his view of the world with each fleeting day spent on the ship. Some fear him, some laugh at him, other's don't care, but everyone knows he exists. One day, when he takes things too far, everything starts to unravel, setting a strand out, a course, one which Icarus can grab hold of and pull to unmask the truth behind Wilbur High. Remembering facts from his own past, and his parent's life stories, Icarus comes to terms with more about the world, and himself as a person. As he comes of age, he begins to realize what he wants to do, he begins to see the harrowing freedom of the horizon burn into his sight. He also gains new friends, Lukhen, his roommate, and Ariel, a girl that shares one of his classes. The three bond together over their new environment as the questions in their minds grow more numerous. Utilizing his understanding of technology, his introspective and intraspective nature, and his emerging innate instincts, Icarus may stand a chance against the forces at play drowning below the abyssal shadows surrounding the ship. Whatever these forces are, and their plans, Icarus and his friends remain unsure, but through learning and hardship, their determination to save themselves becomes hardened.Since a young age, Icarus has felt a strange power surrounding him and all he does. This mysterious force appears in many ways; a voice, a sound, a push, pull, grab, etc. Whether this entity is a positive or negative one is unknown. With Icarus's skeptical outlooks, the existence of this presence has been outright denied, chalked up to a logistic that his mind doesn't bother to dwell on, causing questions to go unanswered. After events that will soon come to pass, he'll have no choice but to think about what this power is and finally answer these questions for himself as his friends assist him and face do or die situations.
