Ninth House

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo is a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite.

Galaxy '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 fell into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much worse. 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 scholarship. What's the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven, tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless 'tombs' are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicians to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic, raise the dead, and sometimes prey on the living.