From Lambda Literary Award finalist Linsey Miller comes this thrilling stand-alone fantasy
about the lengths we'll go to get ahead—an incredibly fresh twisty love letter to dark
academia...with a body count. Perfect for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid Gallant by
V. E. Schwab and All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman . There is only one
school worth graduating from and it creates as many magicians as it does graves… First in his
class and last in his noble line Fabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his
elite school's honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen students and those
students have a single assignment: kill their professor. If they succeed their student debt is
forgiven. However if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of
the year the students’ lives are forfeit. And dealing with the professor a devil summoned
solely to kill or be killed is no easy task. Fabian isn't worried though. He trusts his best
friends—softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia—to help.
After all that’s why he befriended them. As the months pass and their professor remains
impossibly alive the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be
on their academic records—and their tombstones—forever.
