Forest Demands Its Due

A Lesson in VengeancemeetsThe Taking of Jake Livingstonin this thrilling, page-turning YA horror/fantasy set in dark academia about a queer Black teen who discovers the sinister, deadly history of his boarding school and the corrupt powers behind it all.

Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious than any outsider could begin to suspect.

Seventeen-year-old Douglas Jones wants nothing to do with Regent’s king-making; hes just trying to survive. But then a student is murdered and, for some reason, by the next day no one remembers him having ever existed, except for Douglas and the groundskeeper’s son, Everett Everley. In his determination to uncover the truth, Douglas awakens a horror hidden within the forest, unearthing secrets that have been buried for centuries. A vengeful creature wants blood as payment for a debt more than three hundred years in the makingor it will swallow all of Winslow in darkness.

And for the first time in his life, Douglas might have a chance to grasp the one thing hes always felt was missing: power.But if hes not careful, he will find out that power has a tendency to corrupt absolutely everything.