Teaching Her To Be Bad

Nova Cruz is twenty years old, three thousand dollars behind on tuition, and one forged transcript away from being expelled from Halcyon. When the dean catches her, she expects to be thrown out. Instead, Elias Roarke offers her a deal: get inside the Halcyon Society, the untouchable student elite who have destroyed everyone who's tried to expose them, and bring him evidence. He is thirty-eight, precise, dangerous, and the only adult who has ever looked at Nova like she might actually be worth something. She says yes. She gets in. She learns to lie with a straight face, to drink what they drink, to laugh at what they laugh at. And she starts to like it. When the Society finds out they have a mole, they don't come for Nova first. They come for Elias. Nova doesn't run. She stands in front of him, and she takes the bullet she knows is coming.