The Sunday Times bestsellerFINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARDIn the start of an allnew trilogy the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver introduces you to a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death until one girl begins to rewrite its rules.Enter a school of magic unlike any you have ever encountered.There are no teachers no holidays friendships are purely strategic and the odds of survival are never equal. Once youre inside there are only two ways out you graduate or you die.El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the schools many dangers. She may be without allies but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school.Except she might accidentally kill all the other students too.