SarahRCubitt13
There's no place like home.
But there's definitely no place like Oz.
After sixteen-year-old Dorothea "Dottie" Gale gets expelled from another school, her fed-up mum does the only logical thing: sends her across the Atlantic to Oz Academy: an ancient, ivy-choked boarding school hidden in the English countryside, whispered about by old families... and tied to the father Dottie barely knows through stories.
Oz is supposed to straighten her out.
Instead, it unravels her.
The corridors feel wrong-too quiet, too watchful. The portraits track her like they've got opinions. Rules exist that no one will explain, and secret societies linger in the gaps between lessons.
Most of all, there's Oscar Diggs. The headmaster's son. Gone without a trace-and somehow erased from conversation, as if saying his name might summon something.
Then the notes start appearing: delicate handwriting slipped into her textbooks, tucked under her pillow, pressed into her palm when no one's looking. Warnings. Instructions. Messages that shouldn't be possible-because whoever's leaving them knows Dottie's secrets, her bloodline, and the storm her family tried to bury.
With three unlikely allies Dottie digs into Oz Academy's history. And finds something still breathing beneath it.
Because Oz is more than an old school. It's a place where fairy tales rot beneath the floorboards and the line between friend and foe blurs like smoke in the fog. Where a girl with no choice must step into a legacy as twisted as its labyrinthine grounds-because the storm that started it all is still raging, and Oz remembers every secret.
Step carefully. Not every path leads home.
(Wizard of Oz re-telling)