YA MEDICAL SUSPENSE
Stories about what institutions ask us to surrender.
Ripley Crow writes tense, character-driven fiction about loyalty, power, grief, and the choices people make when every option carries a cost.
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What They Took
In 1999 Minnesota, a teenager is pulled into a medical research institution where the promise of treatment becomes something far more dangerous.
What They Took is a YA medical suspense novel about twins, sacrifice, institutional power, and the terrible distance between what is legal and what is right.
“The worst choices are the ones that don’t feel like choices at all.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ripley Crow
Ripley Crow is a Minnesota writer and educator whose work centers on pressure, moral uncertainty, and the people who refuse to stop asking questions. They write young adult suspense and poetry.
Their current novel, What They Took, combines medical suspense with an intimate story of grief, loyalty, and survival.
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