It started with four.
Every knight earned the name the world gave them.
The words get stuck. The plan never does. Son of the only cop in town.
Talks with a lisp and a shorter fuse than any boy in Hayward.
A mouthful of metal. Talks soft, schemes loud, and is always the first to volunteer.
The ringleader. No flaw anyone can find — which is the one thing that scares Stutter.
Not yet recognized.
Not yet recognized.
Recognition requires a unanimous vote. some votes are cast in the dark.
It’s the last week before high school, and a girl two towns over has gone missing. The Knights barely notice — until one of their own doesn’t come to the warehouse.
There are no adults coming to save them. So they do what knights do. They make a plan. They send one of their own into the dark on purpose, with a tracker hidden in his shoe and a hope that someone is listening.
The Six Knights is a story about the friends you choose, the ones you almost lose, and the summer that ends childhood for good.