That Devil, Ambition

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 ReidGallant by V. E. Schwaband All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman. There is only one school worth graduating fromand it creates as many magicians as it does graves… First in his class and last in his noble lineFabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his elite school’s honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen studentsand those students have a single assignment: kill their professor. If they succeedtheir student debt is forgiven. Howeverif an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the yearthe students’ lives are forfeit. And dealing with the professora devil summoned solely to kill or be killedis no easy task. Fabian isn’t worriedthough. He trusts his best friends–softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia–to help. After allthat’s why he befriended them. As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alivethe trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records–and their tombstones–forever.