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Raxter，是一所位在遙遠島上的女子中學校。18個月前，該島爆發疫情，植物、動物，甚至人類都遭受感染。病毒會侵犯眼睛、骨頭等，學校已經有老師因此身亡，整個島變得人心惶惶、焦躁不安。學校被隔離，大家只能關在一起等待疾病防治中心成功研發解方。女主角Hettie和好朋友Byatt、Reese的眼睛、骨頭、手也遭受感染，但她們還是彼此扶持打氣。 某天好友突Reese然無故失蹤，「這是她的東西…她一定是不想讓我們碰到她，她去那兒了？」 Hettie無論如何都要找出朋友的下落。

"Celebrates the resilience of girls and the earthshaking power of their friendships. An eerie, unforgettable triumph." --Claire Legrand, New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn "Wilder Girls is so sharp and packs so much emotion in such wise ways. I'm convinced we're about to witness the emergence of a major new literary star." --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation A feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh, new debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before. It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true. "The perfect kind of story for our current era." --Hypable "A groundbreaking speculative story--brutal and beautiful, raw and unflinching." --Emily Suvada, author of This Mortal Coil "The perfect kind of story for our current era." --Hypable "Real, flawed, brave girls against a world gone mad. A shudderingly good read!" --Dawn Kurtagich, author of Teeth in the Mist