Welcome to Blackwood Academy: the legendary school located on the fringes of the afterlife. Once a pupil enters the academy’s arched gates, there is no way out…except the Decennial, a cut-throat magical competition with only one victor.
This year, six of the Academy’s top students have been chosen to face the Decennial’s tests. Two academic archrivals, whose strange connection blurs the lines between obsession and hate. One girl driven solely by ambition, and another plagued by memories of the love she lost. And a charming playboy who never cared for anyone—until he met the academy’s newest student. But what none of them know? They aren’t the only ones playing Blackwood’s game.
Who will win, and who will fall? Only one thing is for certain: in this game, some fates are worse than death.
Two decades ago, the Bloodmoons ruthlessly murdered Saffron Killoran’s parents, destroying her idyllic childhood. Hell-bent on revenge, she lies her way into Silvercloak Academy—the training ground for her city’s elite order of detectives—with a single goal: to bring the Bloodmoons to justice.
But when Saff’s deception is exposed, rather than being cast out, she’s given a rare opportunity: to go undercover and tear the Bloodmoons down from the inside.
Descending into a world where pleasure and pain are the most powerful currencies, Saff must commit some truly heinous deeds to keep her cover—and her life. Not only are there rival gangs and sinister smuggling rings to contend with, but there’s also her growing feelings for the kingpin’s tortured son, with his vicious pet fallowwolf, his dark past, and the curious prophecy foretelling his death at Saffron’s hand.
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Alice Law siempre ha tenido una única meta: convertirse en una de las mentes más brillantes en el campo de la magia. Lo ha sacrificado todo para tratar de conseguirlo: su orgullo, su salud, su vida amorosa y, por supuesto, su cordura. Todo para trabajar con el profesor Jacob Grimes en Cambridge, el mago más grande del mundo.
Hasta que el profesor muere en un accidente mágico que podría haber sido culpa de Alice.
Grimes ha ido al infierno, y ella no lo duda y va en su busca. Porque tener una carta de recomendación en sus ahora incorpóreas manos podría ser clave para su futuro, y la muerte no va a evitar que siga persiguiendo sus sueños…
Y su rival, Peter Murdoch, ha llegado a la misma conclusión.
Sin nada que les sirva de guía, excepto las historias de Dante y Orfeo, y cargados de tiza suficiente como para dibujar todos los pentagramas necesarios para sus hechizos, además del ardiente deseo de lograr que todos sus esfuerzos académicos hayan servido de algo, se disponen a recorrer el infierno en busca de un hombre que ni siquiera les cae bien.
Pero el infierno no es como aparece en los libros de ficción, la magia no es siempre la respuesta y hay algo en el pasado de Alice y Peter que podría convertirlos en los aliados perfectos… o conducirlos a su perdición.