The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege,
dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite Galaxy “Alex” Stern
is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los
Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and
into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much
worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific,
unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But
at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the
world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and
why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by
her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret
societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the
rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest
players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more
extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper
with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the
living.