Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.

Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine... and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.

But her life's dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school's forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

This is the New York Times bestselling sequel to Kerri Maniscalco's haunting debut Stalking Jack the Ripper. Could it be a copycat killer... or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?

In a world where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Ever Yours, women are no longer born naturally. Girls, called "eves," are raised in schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age.

Best friends Freida and Isabel are sure they’ll be chosen as companions – they are among the most highly rated girls in their year. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions—wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year.

The alternatives—life as a concubine or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)—are too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty—her only asset—in peril.

And then, into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future—even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known.

Save Yourself has the narrative flair of Gillian Flynn and Adam Ross, the scruffy appeal of Donald Ray Pollock, and the addictiveness of Breaking Bad.

Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing him to his breaking point.

Meanwhile, Layla's little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She's become a prime target for her cruel classmates, not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents: Layla's bad-girl rep proves to be too huge a shadow for Verna, so she falls in with her sister's circle of outcasts and misfits whose world is far darker than she ever imagined.

Kelly Braffet's characters, indelibly portrayed and richly varied, are all on their own twisted paths to finding peace. The result is a novel of unnerving power-darkly compelling, addictively written, and shockingly honest.

Krabat is the story of a 14-year-old orphan boy living in the area around Lausitz/Dresden in the 17th century, leading a beggar's life. One day, he seeks his fortune with a mill master, who lures him in and employs him as an apprentice. It soon becomes clear that there is more to the "master". Dark magic, intrigue, deception, trust, friendship, revenge, and yes, love, all play a part in this enchanting tale that is both magical and excitingly told.

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil—human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time.

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”—those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect.

To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city—from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power—on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected...and who waits for his next lethal opportunity.

Mistress of the Art of Death is a chilling and mesmerizing novel that masterfully combines the best elements of modern forensic thrillers with the rich detail and drama of historical fiction.

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, accused of committing these acts in blasphemous ceremonies. To protect them from the rioting mob, the king places the Cambridge Jews under his protection, hiding them in a castle fortress.

King Henry II, despite his general disdain for the Jews, is invested in their fate due to the taxes he receives from Jewish merchants, which are crucial for his treasury. Hoping that scientific investigation will exonerate the Jews, Henry calls upon his cousin, the King of Sicily, to send his finest medical expert. Yet, instead of a "master," the Italian doctor sent is a young prodigy named Adelia, a "mistress of the art of death."

Adelia, along with her companions Simon, a Jew, and Mansur, a Moor, travels to England to unravel the mystery of the Cambridge murders. The investigation reveals the work of a serial killer, likely someone who has been on Crusade with the king. In a backward and superstitious country like England, Adelia must conceal her true identity as a doctor to avoid accusations of witchcraft.

Assisted by Sir Rowley Picot, a tax collector with a personal stake in the investigation, Adelia navigates the shadowy river paths of Cambridge and the closed doors of its churches and nunneries. As the hunt intensifies, the killer prepares to strike again, leaving Adelia in a race against time to prevent further tragedy.