You do not choose the Academy. The Academy chooses you. I had no idea how those words would change my life. Or how they had already managed to change it... Until the very day when we were given a death sentence. My younger brother was elected to a prestigious secret magic school. The place is so dangerous that no one guarantees that you will get out of there alive. If he doesn’t leave, our whole family will die. My older brother received exactly the same invitation three years ago, to the same school where he mysteriously died. The Academy has already killed my brother. I'll be damned if they take another one. I do the only thing an older sister can do: cut my hair and take his place. Magic and monsters are real. Murderers are coming after me, and the dead tend to rise from their graves. I have to beat the Academy at its own game. Or die trying.