Six teens are devoted to a game with one rule: If a player gets tagged, they must change their life within the next fifteen minutes. The better the player, the bigger the change. One might give their car away, or punch the school bully. Another might change identities or sacrifice their virginity. Anything to keep evolving, to avoid fitting into a label or caring about the junk they own. But their quest for enlightenment has taken a rotten final turn – one of the players has murdered the game’s creator, the teen prophet (cult leader?) David Bloom.
Our narrator is being framed for the crime; can he clear his name and discover which of his lifelong friends is the murderer before he takes the fall?
Before the Panache: Discover the Origins of Cyrano de Bergerac’s Legendary Spirit
What creates a hero? Is greatness something a person is born with—or something forged through hardship, heartbreak, and determination? In Before the Panache: From Savinien to Cyrano de Bergerac, author Edgard Bronce-Ceray invites readers into the untold story behind one of literature’s most iconic figures. Long before Cyrano became the flamboyant swordsman and poet immortalized…








