About the Book: Blackwood Academy is a mysterious boarding school on the edge of the afterlife, where students don’t know how they arrived. The only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial, a once-in-a-decade series of magical trials offering the winner a choice: join Blackwood’s elite or cross over to the Other Side. Among the six determined nominees are Wren, battling her rival Augustine; rule-breaker Irene; and Olivier, desperate to stop Emilio from crossing over. As the fierce competition unfolds, these students will discover that some fates are far worse than death itself.