Rise in the ranks or die at the hands of your classmates…

Students at Istrin College know there are only two options in the vicious first-year trials: Rise in the ranks, or die at the hands of their classmates. Because at this lethal school, where magic is finite and blood sacrifice is demanded by the gods, the strength of a student’s magic is directly dependent on their class rank.

The elite spend their lives training tirelessly for the trials, so when common-born dock worker Quinn Saxton is unexpectedly forced to enter Istrin, she knows she’ll need to kill if she wants to walk out of Istrin alive.

Striving to catch up to her smug, pre-trained peers, Quinn finds an unlikely ally: Rennick Allard, the son of one of the most powerful magical families. Rennick has a complicated past, unique powers of his own, and an allure Quinn wasn’t expecting to find among the bloodshed.

But as Quinn becomes addicted to her rising level of power, the threat of those who want to rip it from her grows. Quinn will do whatever it takes to keep herself from being powerless ever again, even if it means being cold-blooded enough to not simply survive the Istrin Trials, but to win.

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