Ascending The Boneyard: A mind-bending and captivating mystery about one teen’s surreal experiences after surviving a major trauma

Donnie Darko meets The Matrix in this mind-bending and captivating mystery about one teens surreal experiences after surviving a major trauma. Everythings a battle. Sometimes life gets too real, and Caleb Tosh has taken one hit too many. First, there was the accident that changed everything for Toshs younger brother. Now his mom has left. All the pain, the grief and loss, have finally pushed Tosh over the edge. If only he could have a do-over. Wipe his reality. Start fresh. Maybe he could fix all of his mistakes and everything would be different. Tosh immerses himself in the complex missions from the game he obsessively plays, The Boneyard. The game bleeds into the dark nature of his everyday life, folding reality into surreality until its impossible to separate one from the other. Tosh is desperate to Ascend, to reach the next level, to become Worthy. Readers are brought on a one-of-a-kind, absorbing journey where no one can say what is real and what isntright up until the shocking, yet deeply powerful conclusion. A Mind-bending And Captivating Mystery About One Teen’s Surreal Experiences After Surviving A Major Trauma. Caleb Tosh Has Suffered One Personal Trauma Too Many, But This Last One—the Sudden Departure Of His Mom—has Pushed Him Down A Dark And Disorienting Path. His Favorite Video-game, Boneyard, Becomes His Go-to Coping Mechanism, And Tosh Gladly Gets Lost In The Maps Of The Game Rather Than Move Through The Landscape Of His Own Grief. As Tosh Falls Farther And Farther Down The Rabbit Hole Of Abandonment And Loneliness, He Doesn’t See There Are Others Fighting Both Virtual And Real-life Battles Alongside Him. What Will It Take For Caleb Tosh To Leave The Safety Of The Boneyard, To Rejoin Reality, And Deal With The Wreckage Of His Actual Life? Overwhelmed by a series of losses, including an accident that left his brother in a wheelchair, his father's abuse, and his mother's departure, sixteen-year-old Tosh escapes into a video game but soon, the game becomes much more real than his life