Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo

eBook - 2019

"The best fantasy novel I've read in years, because it's about real people... Impossible to put down." —Stephen KingEnter a mesmerizing world of power, privilege, and dark magic among the Ivy League elite in the first book in the Alex Stern series.Goodreads Choice Award WinnerLocus FinalistGalaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is ...offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with... more