The Ashes of Blackthorne

At Blackthorne Academy, art is everything.

For seventeen-year-old Mara Vale, earning a scholarship to the elite school was supposed to be her escape from Ashford Hollow, not the beginning of a nightmare. But when a senior's haunting painting is unveiled at the annual showcase, something about it feels wrong. The next morning, the painting is gone.

So is the girl who created it.

As rumors swirl and the school closes ranks, Mara begins to uncover fragments of a secret buried deep within Blackthorne's walls, one tied to a fire no one talks about and a wing of the academy that remains permanently locked. The more she searches, the clearer it becomes: the painting wasn't just art.

It was evidence.

And someone will do anything to keep it hidden.