Barbara Gordon was on the rooftop with her best friend when she was shot. Now in a wheelchair, she is dropped off at the Arkham Center for Independence for physical and emotional rehab. She isn't planning to stay long, let alone get close to any of the other "inmates," but she didn't expect to meet Jena Newton.
On one of Barbara's first nights at ACI, little Jena enters Barbara's room and offers her help after Barbara awakens from a nightmare. Jena begins a regular routine of telling Barbara stories. She says the stories have helped her twin brother who escaped a house fire that took the lives of their parents.
Shortly after Jena's nightly stories begin, she comes to Barbara for help. She says she can't find her brother. He has disappeared from ACI. Barbara's hobby of hacking computers to solve mysteries kicks in and she leaps at the chance to help Jena, hoping it will help keep her mind off her own loss.
THE ORACLE CODE, a graphic novel by Marieke Nijkamp, follows Barbara's quest to find the missing boy and further investigate questionable activities in the center. Finding a hidden therapy area has Barbara and her new friends concerned about just exactly what goes on in the place they have been took will help them. Diversity abounds in this graphic mystery.
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