A Lesson in Vengeance meets The Taking of Jake Livingston in this page-turning YA horror
fantasy set in dark academia about a queer Black teen who discovers the sinister history of his
boarding school and the corrupt powers behind it all. Regent Academy has a long and storied
history in Winslow Vermont as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for
molding teens into leaders but its history is far more nefarious. Seventeen-year-old Douglas
Jones wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making he's just trying to survive. But then a
student is murdered and for some reason by the next day no one remembers him having ever
existed except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son Everett Everley. In his determination
to uncover the truth Douglas awakens a horror hidden within the forest unearthing secrets
that have been buried for centuries. A vengeful creature wants blood as payment for a debt more
than 300 years in the making-or it will swallow all of Winslow in darkness. And for the first
time in his life Douglas might have a chance to grasp the one thing he's always felt was
missing: power. But if he's not careful he will find out that power has a tendency to corrupt
absolutely everything. A high-octane mystery of murder and magic for fans of Ace of Spades
House of Hollow and Get Out !
