Codebreaker by Jay Martel

Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her application for Harvard. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run. Three weeks later, and still reeling from her father’s betrayal, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a rebellious and charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Minor injury depiction, including a concussion & gunshot wounds
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of parents in a car accident recounted
  • Car chase, resulting in a car falling into the river and a fatal drowning
  • Gun violence
  • Physical assault (fistfights)