First published 2019
November has no idea why she was sent to Academy Absconditi. There's no electricity, no internet, and a punishment code straight out of the ancient world. Her classes cover knife throwing, poisons, and the art of lying convincingly. Her classmates are descendants of the world's most powerful strategists, and they are training to become assassins, spies, and master impersonators. One student can mimic any accent and cannot be trusted. Another has already sized up November's weaknesses and plans to use them. A boy with striking eyes is watching her for reasons he won't reveal. November is an ordinary girl dropped into a school built for anything but ordinary. She doesn't understand how she fits into its history. Then a student turns up dead. Now November has to figure out who is on her side before someone pins the murder on her, or kills her next. From the author of How to Hang a Witch, this thriller puts a teenage girl in a world where the wrong alliance is a death sentence.
Genres: suspense, mystery, thriller, young-adult, dark-academia
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, gritty, suspenseful, tense
Tropes: dangerous-classmates, fish-out-of-water, hidden-agenda, murder-mystery
Setting: Academy Absconditi
416 pages · Paperback · Ember
Content warnings: murder, violence