“[Scholomance] won't allow its students to leave until they graduate . . . or die. The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.”
Scholomance isn’t your typical school of magic. El is…
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A Deadly Education
a Novel
- “An innocent reading of dark magic turns their journey into one of fire, blood, and possession...” Tess is a cello player in her senior year at the prestigious Falk University Preparatory Academy. She’s doing a work-study, and works in the school’s…
- 16 year-old Sasha has been tasked with completing a series of strange challenges by a mysterious man. After doing so, he wants to send her to the Institute of Special Technologies, a university in a remote village. She doesn’t want to go and her…
- Raised in California and a high school drop-out, Alex Stern has been in and out of a lot of trouble by the time she is twenty—Including being the only survivor of a multiple murder. While in the hospital, however, she’s given an amazing, and kind of…
- Binti is a teenage girl from earth. She is a member of the Himba people, a group that has been oppressed and marginalized. Binti, however, is the first of her people to be accepted to the prestigious intergalactic university of Oomza. On her way to…
- 16 year-old Bree is looking for an escape. Her mother died in an accident, and she wants to get away from her memories. She attends a residential program for bright high school students thinking it will be just the thing. But on her first night, she…
- There is a prestigious secret society that takes care of ancient knowledge from all the greatest civilizations—The Alexandrian Society. Only the best academic magicians are selected for initiation. If you are one of them, your life will be one of…
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