Galaxy “Alex” Stern returns to Yale, balancing deadly occult rituals and the drug‑scarred ghosts of her past as she defies the powerful Lethe House to retrieve her mentor from a hellish prison. Brimming with dark academia, twisted magic, and uncertain allies, her relentless search tests loyalties, morals, and the very boundaries between life and damnation.
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is a damaged survivor with the rare ability to see ghosts, offered a mysterious full scholarship to Yale—not out of kindness, but in exchange for policing the occult workings of the university’s secret societies. Drawn into Lethe, the cryptic Ninth House, she must navigate lethal rituals, shifting loyalties, and her own haunted past as she uncovers the dark magic pulsing beneath the Ivy League’s gilded surface.
