Ashen didn't have a choice. His good-for-nothing stepfather forced him out of the house at seventeen and into a boarding school thirty-two miles from anywhere. Blackbriar Academy chose Ashen. He didn't have a choice. Among sixteen other students, he'll only learn how to survive the nights on the run. And when you're in the middle of a dangerous peninsula crawling with the worst kinds of madness, where do you run to? Blackbriar Academy selects only the most talented students to survive the school year. No one has a choice.