Eli Raphael presents 'Night Objects: A Novel'

Third Place Books welcomes author Eli Raphael to our Seward Park store for a conversation about her debut novel, : a thriller following a grief-stricken teenager who, while trying to stay afloat at an elite Washington State boarding school, must navigate privilege, obsession...and ultimately a M**der investigation.

"Eli Raphael announces herself in Night Objects as a writer to watch. Her prose is vivid and immersive; her storytelling is top-notch. Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, Night Objects will keep readers guessing all the way through, but it's the book's emotional center—a daughter in deep mourning for her late mother—that elevates this novel into something truly memorable."—Liz Moore, author of The God of the Woods

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This suspenseful novel transports readers to the windswept coast of Washington State and a boarding school steeped in privilege and deadly secrets—a remarkable story of grief, power, and the dangerous price of belonging.

"Vivid and immersive." —Liz Moore, bestselling author of The God of the Woods and Long Bright River

It is true that I wished him dead dozens of times. Hundreds, even. But I, Lenny Winter, did not K*ll that boy.

Lenny Winter is fifteen years old when she moves with her parents to an aging houseboat off the rugged coast of Washington. She imagines a quiet life spent charting constellations and chasing her dream of becoming an astronomer. Instead, a sudden tragedy shatters her world and catapults her to Blanchard, a renowned boarding school for the Pacific Northwest's elite, where wealth and tradition rule.

Blanchard is dazzling, insular—and haunted by its own legends. At its heart lurks the Pascalianum Club, a secret society known to shape the school's greatest and most notorious students, and whose influence stretches far beyond campus walls. Hungry to belong, Lenny is drawn into its orbit, even as she senses that the club feeds on the very vulnerabilities she is desperate to hide.

As privilege collides with grief and loyalty warps into obsession, Lenny’s choices will lead to an unforgettable reckoning—and a M**der investigation that will test every story she tells herself about guilt, power, hope, and who she is becoming.

Sweeping, thrilling, and deeply moving, Night Objects is both a gripping mystery and a profound coming-of-age story—asking what we risk, what we become, and who we hold dear when the need to belong eclipses everything else.

Eli Raphael grew up in Miami, Florida, and now lives in rural Washington State. Night Objects is her first novel.

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