That Devil, Ambition

By: Linsey Miller

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2025-06-03

<p>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.</p> <p>Perfect for fans of A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid, Gallant by V. E. Schwab, and All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman. </p> <p>There is only one school worth graduating from, and it creates as many magicians as it does graves...</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>