Veritas Project Books in Order

The Veritas Project books are teen thrillers built around one unusual family. Nate and Sarah Springfield, along with their sixteen‑year‑old twins Elijah and Elisha, run a privately funded investigative team commissioned by the government to tackle cases where the natural and supernatural seem tangled together. Their mandate is more than fact‑finding; they are supposed to uncover the truth behind the facts.

In Hangman’s Curse, the team goes undercover at a high school haunted by the legend of Abel Frye, a bullied student who supposedly hanged himself decades earlier. Now star athletes are seeing his ghost and collapsing into madness, and the administration is desperate for answers. Elijah and Elisha enroll as students, navigating cliques, rumors, and cruelty while their parents quietly dig into the history behind the story.

Nightmare Academy sends the twins to a strange school linked to a boy who reappears with his memory almost completely erased. The only words he can say are “I don’t know” and “Nightmare Academy.” As Elijah and Elisha infiltrate the campus, they uncover experiments in mind‑shaping and a program that treats teenagers as raw material to be rewritten.

Across both novels, Peretti aims the suspense squarely at issues real teens face—bullying, peer pressure, groupthink, and the lure of quick answers that bypass conscience. The Springfields model a tight‑knit family that works together, argues honestly, and prays without turning every page into a sermon. The stories move quickly, with undercover disguises, chases, and a few genuinely eerie moments.

The series has been described as an evangelical Christian take on something like a paranormal investigation show: everyday settings, weird cases, and an insistence that the spiritual world is not a metaphor. If you’re a younger reader who wants Peretti’s trademark mix of mystery, danger, and thoughtful faith in a high‑school setting, this is the natural place to start.