The Ashford Reckoning

In the prestigious halls of Blackwood University, Professor Lucian Ashford recruits five broken students for a clandestine obedience experiment targeting society’s most forsaken outcasts. What begins as a study in authority quickly spirals into a series of ritualistic murders, each victim a soul long rejected by the world. As blood stains the campus, Rowan Kade must navigate a labyrinth of manipulation, guilt, and her own dark past to uncover the truth—before she becomes the next willing executioner. A razor-sharp psychological thriller in the vein of E. Lockhart, where no one is innocent and every monster was first a forgotten child.