Some curses don't kill you. They just make sure you die alone.On her eighteenth birthday, Sage Thornwood's life fractures with a single lie.One moment she's ending a relationship. The next, she's smelling rot where there should be truth.Before she can make sense of it, Sage is swept into Hallowmere Academy, a hidden world where magic is currency and every word carries weight. There, she discovers she's inherited a dangerous legacy - one that makes trust impossible and isolation inevitable.But when everyone feels like a threat, one person doesn't.Lysander: distant, unreadable, and far older than he seems. He should be the last person Sage goes to, yet he's the only one her instincts don't scream to avoid. And the closer they grow, the more the shadows around them shift - hinting that the truth she's seeking is far more treacherous than she ever imagined.