A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw,perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical. A gorgeous hardcover edition featuring sprayed edges! This school will eat you alive. The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroksthe world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemptionacceptanceand a normal life after graduation. At leastthatΓÇÖs what Alessa Li is told when sheΓÇÖs kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But thereΓÇÖs more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation daythe faculty go on a ravenous rampagefeasting on AlessaΓÇÖs class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the schoolΓÇÖs librarythey must offer a human sacrifice every nightor else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone. Can they band together and surviveor will the faculty eat its fill? Also by Cassandra Khaw: The Salt Grows Heavy Nothing But Blackened Teeth A Song for Quiet Hammers on Bone The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)