Ninth House

Ninth HouseA LOCUS AWARD FINALIST The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, 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 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

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, 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 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 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 politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 10/08/2019
ISBN: 9781250313072
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 4
Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 70
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 08/12/2019
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 5
Shelf Awareness 10/18/2019