Fame, Fortune... and a Clever Thinking Wombat!
High school seniors Laura McGonogle, Vaughn Arnold, and JW Winstead thought that inventing groundbreaking technology would be the hard part. Turns out, surviving fame is even trickier.
Thrust into the global spotlight, they juggle nosy reporters, scheming corporations desperate to steal their invention, and job offers that sound too wild to be real. All while pretending they’re just ordinary high school students trying to survive another year of homework and cafeteria food.
The three are forced to convince the world they have retreated back to their high school studies and are uninterested in working on anything new. But that is not true. With support from their mentor, they have constructed a laboratory in a secret location where they develop a breakthrough way to read the wombat’s thoughts But behind the scenes, in a hidden lab with the help of their trusted mentor, the trio is secretly working on their most ambitious project yet: decoding the actual thoughts of their clever companion, Whizzzer, the wombat.
When they succeed… if they succeed, it will only be because they successfully invented something the world has never seen.
As whispers of their secret project begin to leak, Laura, Vaughn, and JW must race to protect their discovery. Because in a world obsessed with fame and power, secrets never stay buried for long…