The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school’s past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
To get what they want most, Zara and Jude search for Emer, an orphaned witch with dark and deadly powers, but when a serial killer targets Emer’s clients, the three girls form an uneasy alliance to hunt the killer before they meet the same fate.
Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
After a tragedy claims the lives of her classmates, sole survivor Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that would ruin her life if discovered as she searches for answers, leading her to a cult-like secret society she believes responsible for their deaths.
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny’s private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer–and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore
Enrolling in the third most haunted school in the country in the hope of finding her dead father, Este Logano instead finds Mateo, an annoying real ghost, and soon discovers that following her father’s footsteps might be more dangerous than she ever anticipated.
All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters
As a new member of Magni Viri, Corbin College’s elite society, Tara slowly loses her grip on reality when strange things start happening and discovers a terrible secret about Magni Viri that just might turn her academic dreams into nightmares.
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Starting her junior year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy, Sade Hussein decides to investigate when her roommate Elizabeth goes missing and is plunged into a world of dark secrets—ones that rival even her own.
The Society for Soulless Girls by Laura Steven
Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of the Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is determined to find out what really happened. But when her beautiful but standoffish roommate, Alice Wolfe, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual in a book hidden in Carvell’s library, the North Tower claims another victim. Is there a killer among them . . . or worse, within them?
To find answers about her mother’s mysterious death, Calliope transfers to the elite boarding school her mother once attended where she joins an exclusive secret society that, she soon discovers, is linked to her mother’s deadly crash.
The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward
Relentlessly bullied by St. Ambrose’s queen bee, Greta Stanhope, Sarah Taylor finds an ally in her roommate Ellen, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete, and determined not to let Greta break her, finds her world unraveling in ways she could never have imagined when a scandal unfolds, resulting in murder.
This is How We End Things by R. J. Jacobs
Conducting an experiment on the psychology of deception, five graduate students, when one of them is murdered after a test goes awry, realize that each of them had a reason to kill and that lies can be more dangerous than they ever believed.
The Manor House Governess by C. A. Castle
Accepting a position as live-in tutor for the Edwards family, Brontë Ellis arrives at Greenwood Manor where he is welcomed into the household with warmth until a tragic fire reveals dark secrets smoldering under the surface of this once elegant estate.
Mark Lausson, a professor stuck in the middle of Ohio, is smart enough to get a job at an elite liberal arts college but not smart enough to know better when he meets charismatic sophomore Tyler Cunningham. Caught in the rush of sex and secrets, Mark ignores the increasing evidence that Tyler can’t be trusted. But by the time Mark comes to his senses, the irreparable damage is done.
After receiving an admission letter from a mysterious university in an old secluded castle on top of a mountain, Corvina Clemm gets tangled up in a chilling, century-old mystery as well as with a part-time professor.
When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
Working-class Louise heads into the fraught atmosphere of an elite private school, determined to unearth its secrets. She ends up with a dead body at her feet. Decades later, a lawyer comes calling.
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Given the opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite, the boy, raised as one of the Chained, forms a bond with“the professor,” and together they set off on a transformative journey to break free of the chains that fetter them both.
The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox
With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of the sprawling Blackwood Abbey on the Yorkshire moors. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own.
Taking up the antiquated role of “matron” at an elite English boarding school, a woman is unsure of her role, her accent and her body until she has a passionate, illicit affair with Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, but as summer fades, a choice must be made.
