That Devil Ambition

<p><strong>From Lambda Literary Award finalist Linsey Miller comes this thrilling stand-alone fantasy about the lengths we''ll go to get ahead—an incredibly fresh, twisty love letter to dark academia...with a body count. </strong></p><p><strong>Perfect for fans of <em>A Study in Drowning</em> by Ava Reid,<em> Gallant </em>by V. E. Schwab, and <em>All of Us Villains</em> by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman<em>.</em> </strong></p><p><em>There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves…</em></p><p>First in his class and last in his noble line, Fabian Galloway’s only hope of a good future is passing his elite school''s honors class. It’s only offered to the best thirteen students, and those students have a single assignment: kill their professor.</p><p>If they succeed, their student debt is forgiven. However, if an assassination attempt fails or the professor is alive at the end of the year, the students’ lives are forfeit.</p><p>And dealing with the professor, a devil summoned solely to kill or be killed, is no easy task.</p><p>Fabian isn''t worried, though. He trusts his best friends—softhearted math genius Credence and absent-minded but insightful Euphemia—to help. After all, that’s why he befriended them.</p><p>As the months pass and their professor remains impossibly alive, the trio must use every asset they have to survive. Or else failure will be on their academic records—and their tombstones—forever.</p>