Secrets of Middletown

Angie and her best friend Ann leave home for university in Middletown, and you take the role of Angie's father, watching over her first steps away from everything familiar. The setup reads like an ordinary campus story until the source itself admits it turns into something closer to a survival-horror pulp than a coming-of-age tale, and the city's secrets are exactly as filthy as advertised.

The plot follows a father's-eye view of a daughter settling into a prestigious school, only for Middletown's underside to surface faster than either of them expects. What starts as dorms and lectures slides into something rougher, with corruption creeping in from outside the usual college drama.

There's no branching maze here: this is a kinetic novel, so you read through Angie and Ann's descent rather than steer it, watching the father's persp