Craved The Atlas Six's morally brilliant schemers in their secret society? unleashes that same dark magic in A Lesson in Vengeance, where ambition haunts every page.
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- Cerebral witch vs witch intellectual warfare
- Gothic boarding school drips atmospheric dread
- Queer enemies-to-lovers tension ignites forbidden desire
- Ambition's cost explored without moral safety nets
If The Atlas Six fed your hunger for morally compromised intellectuals playing dangerous games in exclusive magical societies, A Lesson in Vengeance delivers that same intoxicating cocktail—but this time, the secrets are buried in a haunted boarding school where witchcraft and ambition collide. The cerebral sparring, the unspoken alliances, the way desire and power tangle into something beautifully unsettling: it's all here, wrapped in gothic atmosphere thick enough to choke on.
Lee's protagonists are the kind of broken, brilliant overachievers you root for and fear in equal measure, their ethical lines blurring as obsession takes hold. The queer tension burns slow and dangerous, validating every dark impulse.
This is what happens when ambition meets ghost stories—and neither one blinks first.
What Readers Are Saying
"i'm so excited to share it with you, and i hope that it reaches the right readers: the ones who have never seen themselves represented in fiction as complex, nuanced people rather than as caricatured villains. for the girls who are tired of being called "crazy." this book is a lot of firsts for me. for one, it's my first book with a canonically nonbinary/trans character. as a trans author myself, this feels so validating, to be able to write a character like myself into a mainstream piece of fiction. it's also my first book with a big five publisher, that will be carried in bookstores. and i can't wait to share felicity and ellis' world with you all." — Victoria Lee, Goodreads
"This is such a beautifully crafted and hauntingly atmospheric book staring a lesbian main character who is coming back to finally finish her senior year at a very boarding school. She is also living with an immense amount of grief, anxiousness, and psychotic depression." — Melanie (meltotheany), Goodreads
"Frankly inject this book into my veins, absolutely one of my lifetime favourites for it gave me the chills that came when reading a book and loving it incandescently, 10/10 will go feral talking about it. A Lesson in Vengeance is the only book I've read for a while that fully embodies the fundamentals of what makes dark academia dark academia." — Ellie, Goodreads
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