In For A Penny
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Last published Sat, Jul 19, 2025
Cullbridge College is an institution as ancient as its secrets, a boarding school hidden in the bowels of the English countryside. It has been a home for the wealthy since the fourteenth century, and those who school there are equipped to work as agents in the world with the priviledge and power that they have always beem accustomed to.
But behind this priviledge and power there are many, many mysteries. Lies. Twisted histories that can never be uncovered.
Until Darrah Sanon, a girl with her own dark past, is offered a full-ride scholarship and begins her enrollment. She is quickly thrust into close quarters with five other Cullbridge students, each with their own secrets and murky pasts.
And then strange things begin to happen, rocking the foundations of the students' lives. When these unusual incidents begin to affect the group of students, dark conspiracies are unearthed and shocking truths discovered.
But what will these students do with what they find? Will they unravel the lies and truths until they get to the beginning of it all?
Or will these secrets ruin them?
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