Gladiator

When no one is coming to save you, sometimes you have to save yourself.

Gladiator is a rock musical set in and around the town of Averno. It follows Shiloh as she searches for the truth behind her best friend Kaya's disappearance and ends up in the seedy underbelly of Averno's vigilante justice system. Oh—and a cult.

Averno Bible Description
Shiloh has always known about The Missing. The girls who disappear after parties, from bad marriages, from homes with so many kids that no one bats an eye when there’s one fewer. But when her best friend Kaya disappears and no one will listen, Shiloh must embark on a mission to the seedy underbelly of her town, revealing more and more of the dystopian undertones that haunt the idyllic town of Averno. Finding a world of cults and vigilantes, modern witches and girls with smiles as sharp as knives, Shiloh quickly learns that Averno is not what it seems. The deeper she sinks, the more complicated the web becomes. But even in the farthest reaches, she can’t find her friend. Instead, Shiloh finds her killer. What happened to the witches you couldn’t burn? They became the girls who are hunting you.

Characters
Shiloh - Kaya's best friend. After Kaya goes missing, she falls in with the cult while trying to seek revenge.

Kaya - Shiloh's best friend who goes missing.

Blaire - A member of the Pythons, a cult in Averno.

Soren - One of the Shadowlings, the children raised in the forest.

Trivia

 * A playlist of the music from Gladiator is currently available on Spotify.
 * The title of the playlist is (as of the 20.01.2021) "Built for this time"