Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds: The First Official Str...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • If you think you know the truth behind Dr. Brenner’s experiments at Hawkins Laboratory, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in the first official Stranger Things novel—“the prequel story that fans have been waiting for” (Kirkus Reviews).

Before the Upside Down was uncovered, something far more dangerous was already unfolding in the shadows.

In Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond, readers are taken back to the late 1960s, where a young woman named Terry Ives becomes entangled in a secret government experiment. Set years before the events of the hit series Stranger Things, the story explores the origins of the mysterious Hawkins Lab and the chilling forces behind it.

Drawn by curiosity and a desire for purpose, Terry volunteers for a program that promises expanded consciousness—but instead exposes her to something far more sinister. As reality begins to blur and strange visions take hold, she starts to suspect that the experiment is not about discovery, but control.

The deeper Terry goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Powerful figures are determined to keep their secrets hidden, no matter the cost—and those who get too close risk losing everything, including their sanity.

Tense, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling, this gripping prequel reveals the hidden past that shaped everything to come.

Some doors were never meant to be opened… yet once they are, there’s no turning back.