The Ringwald School of Magic has survived a violent coup and deadly calculations, but the spring thaw has brought a terrifying new threat to Salem, Massachusetts. The Ministry has grown predatorily silent, and a heavy, violet-tinged frost refuses to melt under the April sun.
Sitting in the dark archives, seventeen-year-old Endora Hagwell still completely refuses to use a wand. Her fingers pulse with a raw, white-hot kinetic rhythm, and the mysterious black raven feather she recovered from the ashes of her last enemy is humming. It isn’t just an artifact—it’s a summons.
When the sinister Tom R. Stiltskin steps out of the shadows to claim the newly created office of High Principal, the old rules of Ringwald are violently rewritten. Clad in the heavy robes of an ancient Salem magistrate, Stiltskin intends to run the magic academy like a business. With a single strike of his silver cane, he abolishes the historic school houses and replaces them with a brutal system of Equity. Colorful crests bleed away, replaced by cold, metallic tallies that measure each student's raw magical output.
The stronger your magic, the higher your debt to the new administration. And Endora’s tally? It flashes a violent, dangerous zero. She is officially overdrawn, and Stiltskin expects her in his office at midnight for her assessment.
But the horror spreads far beyond the school walls. Stiltskin’s enforcers have erected massive extraction pylons at the crossroads of local towns, draining the ambient magic and leaving the civilian populations to wither into dead zones.
With the roads blockaded by Ministry patrols, Endora, her roguish rival-turned-ally Maurice Volshebnik, and a tight-knit circle of rebels must execute a desperate gamble. To smash the primary pylon at the Crossroads of Ylreveb, they must smuggle themselves through the neutral zone by registering as a rogue team in the brutal Regional Rollinball Championship.
Armed with a new high-speed Sovereign broom, a fragment of a waking foundation stone, and her own devastating, wandless arcana, Endora is about to show the High Principal what happens when an account is truly uncollectible.
The ledger is open. The debt is due. But Endora Hagwell doesn't pay in coin—she pays in fire.
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