Beneath the Obsidian Oath

Jody Hopkins, a 20-year-old chemistry major from rural Ohio, thought her full scholarship to prestigious Ashford University was her ticket out of poverty. But fitting in among trust fund kids who spend more on textbooks than her family makes in a month proves harder than mastering advanced chemistry. When she starts failing organic chemistry with only eight weeks left in the semester, Jody faces losing everything she's worked for. Then Alex Gallagher offers to tutor her. Heir to a pharmaceutical fortune and dangerously magnetic, Alex is everything Jody knows she can't have. When The Obsidian Circle invites her to join their exclusive ranks, promising academic support and career connections, Jody thinks her struggles are finally over. But when scholarship students start suffering mysterious accidents and she discovers her perfect tutor might not be the man she's falling in love with, Jody realizes The Circle's interest in her isn't about her academic potential. As winter tightens its grip on campus and The Circle prepares for their annual Convergence ceremony, Jody uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the university. Some secrets are buried in tradition, others are worth killing to protect, and Jody is about to learn that the most dangerous predator isn't the one hunting her, it's the one she never saw coming.