Brightwood Files
Brightwood Academy: Spy School for Teens
Clean teen spy thrillers for readers 9–15. No swearing. No graphic content. Just secrets, missions, and complicated crushes.
by kathleen Guire
Brightwood Shadows
“Blend in so well… they forget you were there.”
Trust the wrong person… and you might not live to regret it.
Ellie Quinn has always been good at surviving—thanks to a mom who treated cell phones like kryptonite and wilderness skills like second nature. Problem is, survival wasn’t just a lifestyle. It was training.
When her mother is imprisoned, Ellie gets shipped off to Brightwood Academy—a sprawling, ivy-covered estate disguised as a group home but operating more like a covert prep school for teen spies. Brightwood promises discipline, purpose, and a shot at something bigger… if you can survive the secrets beneath its polished surface
Now, with a shadowy organization known only as The Alliance closing in, Ellie has two options: follow orders and play it safe—or go rogue, rewrite the rules, and trust her instincts… even if it means putting a target on her back.
Brightwood Academy was never just school. It’s a spy game.
And Ellie? She’s not playing.
Fans of clean teen spy adventures like Recruited by the FBI and The Warrior Spy will love Brightwood Shadows—a twist-filled adventure packed with found family dynamics, secret missions, and suspense that thrills without crossing the line. For readers ages 9–15 who like their thrillers high-stakes, their friendships complicated, and their heroes undercover. Think found family, secret identities, and one fierce girl with a crossbow and trust issues. No swearing. Just missions, mysteries, and one conspiracy at a time.
by kathleen Guire
Erebus Protocol
What if your phone turned against you—and so did everyone you trusted?
Ellie Quinn trained her whole life to blend in, stay sharp, and follow the mission. Now she’s back at Brightwood Academy—her elite foster-spy training ground—when every screen flashes with a single word: EREBUS.
Phones crash. Times Square goes dark. Teens everywhere lose control. And the message is clear:
Watch the news tomorrow for the results.
Ellie doesn’t wait for answers—because her mother, a convicted traitor, just escaped prison. And her warning couldn’t be clearer:
“Don’t trust Brightwood.”
Turns out, EREBUS isn’t just a tech glitch. It’s a powerful AI created to shut down the world’s technology. But someone at Brightwood—maybe even Ellie’s own team—wants to turn it into something worse: a way to control kids everywhere.
Now Ellie must go undercover as an influencer, figure out who really unleashed EREBUS, and decide who to stop first—Theo, the director building a brainwashed army… or her mother, who’s willing to sacrifice Ellie for a plan she’s been running since the day Ellie was born.
Perfect for readers 9–15 who love Spy School, Recruited by the FBI, and The Warrior Spy,