The Learning Center at Maple Creek

Set inside an isolated, elite school where artificial intelligence monitors every movement, a gifted teacher begins to notice unsettling patterns: perfect behavior, missing students, and a system that values compliance over compassion.

Ninth-grade teacher Clara Hayes is recruited to the secluded campus by its promise of academic excellence. When students begin dying under suspicious circumstances, she partners with an FBI agent to uncover what the school really is, and who built it: an architect who believes compassion is inefficient and control is everything.

Blending psychological tension with near-future science, The Learning Center at Maple Creek is a literary techno-thriller that explores how far society is willing to go in the pursuit of perfection, and what is lost when humanity is removed from the equation.