The School of Hard Knocks

Sent undercover to Mountaintop, a sister school to Whitehall reeling from its headmaster's sudden death, Emily is meant to quietly uncover the truth behind the power struggle threatening the institution. Instead she is drawn deep into the school's curriculum of forbidden magic, torn between the thrill of knowledge she was never meant to have and a growing sense that something is deeply wrong at its core. A Schooled in Magic novel.