Scott Reintgen

Ren Monroe has spent four years proving she’s one of the best wizards in her generation. But top marks at Balmerick University will mean nothing if she fails to get recruited into one of the major houses. Enter Theo Brood. If being rich were a sin, he’d already be halfway to hell. After a failed and disastrous party trick, fate has the two of them crossing paths at the public waxway portal the day before holidays; Theo’s punishment is to travel home with the scholarship kids—which doesn’t sit well with any of them.

A fight breaks out. In the chaos, the portal spell malfunctions. All six students are snatched from the safety of the school’s campus and set down in the middle of nowhere. And one of them is dead on arrival.

If anyone can get them through the punishing wilderness with limited magical reserves it’s Ren. She’s been in survival mode her entire life. But no magic could prepare her for the tangled secrets the rest of the group is harboring, or for what’s following them through the dark woods…

A Door in the Dark

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"Ren Monroe. Tell me something I don't know." 

We're in the Dires," Ren said. "We're lost."

They’d survived junior and senior year by acting as each other's armor. Offering their strength whenever the other felt too weak to go on. 

"We have to keep looking for him," Theo insisted. He deserves a proper burial."

Ren heard the tremor in his voice. He was saying what he thought was the right thing to say and hoping they would disagree. She decided to give him an out.

"I can't stop seeing him," Timmons said. "The way he looked. Burned like that." 

He'd come to her for information. Irusted her to have the answer. It was a starting point.

"Exactly," he said. "Vega only goes where I go." 

This place was bright and beautiful. It was also hunting them.

“Not that it mattered. I was always the more handsome of the two of us. Right, Ren?" He grinned back at her.

“Out here? With nothing else to look at? Sure, you're plenty handsome out here."

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