Ninth House is the mesmerizing adult debut from #1 New York Times
bestselling author Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark
magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite.
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. In fact, by age twenty,
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 prestigious
universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?
Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her
mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret
societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of
the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's
biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more
extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper
with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on
the living.
