Alka Chelrazi has three goals: infiltrate Blackwater Academy, win the Great Game, and burn wizard society to the ground.
As a child, she watched Wizards murder her parents. Now, undercover for the rebels, she’s posing as one of the magical elite at the Republic’s most cutthroat school—a place where decadent galas end in blood, duels are a sport, and every classmate is a potential assassin.
To survive, Alka will need every skill in her spy’s arsenal: lies, theft, sabotage, and, for the first time, friendship. Recruiting misfits and outcasts into her rebellion, she inches closer to vengeance.
But the closer she gets, the more the line blurs between playing the game and becoming part of it.
What if victory costs her the very thing she’s fighting for?
