My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This gothic YA remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde subverts the cishet white perspective of the original, starring a Black queer teen searching for the reason behind his best friend¿s disappearance and the arrival of a magnetic stranger.

London, 1885. Gabriel Utterson, a 17-year-old law clerk, has returned to London for the first time since his life¿ and that of his dearest friend, Henry Jekyll¿was derailed by a scandal that led to his and Henry''s expulsion from the London Medical School. Whispers about the true nature of Gabriel and Henry''s relationship have followed the boys for two years, and now Gabriel has a chance to start again.

But Gabriel doesn''t want to move on, not without Henry. His friend has become distant and cold since the disastrous events of the pri