THE FAUST SOCIETY
Work in progress
RJ is currently working on his YA debut, THE FAUST SOCIETY.
What if the Republican Party was run by an elite secret cult that recruited ambitious teens to become its future power players? Imagine THE ATLAS SIX meets HBO’s SUCCESSION—a YA dark-academia political thriller with the sharp social menace of GET OUT.
In THE FAUST SOCIETY, Santiago is a brilliant but undocumented seventeen-year-old who, amidst the threat of deportation, receives the offer of a lifetime: citizenship, wealth, and unlimited privilege—if he agrees to serve a cultlike rightwing machine grooming the next generation to control America from the shadows.
The Society is a GOP Skull & Bones with a recruitment pipeline that starts in high school. Soon, Santiago is swept into their lavish yet sinister world, where he and six other teens are trained by real Republican operatives in how to cheat, propagandize, and manipulate their way to the top—while getting wildly rich along the way.
Of course, no deal with the Devil comes cheap. Santiago’s already agreed to sell his morals... But what if the price is much higher?