K-Neon

<p>The truth didn't end at Nova City International Academy.<br>It only got more dangerous.</p><p>Six months after exposing the corruption that rocked NCIA Han Yoo-na should be healing. Instead she's haunted by a mystery she can't let go-the unfinished story of Im Soo-hee a girl silenced by power and buried by lies. But when a cryptic package arrives containing a coded musical score a faded photograph and a note that leads to Budapest Yoo-na and her closest ally the fiercely talented Kwon Min-jun are thrust into a new and far more dangerous investigation.</p><p>Across the globe in the hauntingly beautiful heart of Europe the pair follow Soo-hee's ghostly trail to a long-abandoned academy and a buried Cold War secret. There among crumbling gothic buildings and layers of history they discover whispers of something far bigger than a school cover-up-an international web of silence symbols and a mysterious operative known only as <em>The Cleaner</em>.</p><p>As they race to decode the cipher left behind Yoo-na and Min-jun must navigate foreign streets private archives and their own unresolved feelings. But the deeper they dig the clearer it becomes: someone is watching. Someone doesn't want them to find the truth. And someone still holds the power to make them disappear.</p><p>Because this time the silence isn't institutional-it's lethal.</p>