Elite Blackwood Academy promises a future of unparalleled success to its hand-picked students. But beneath the gilded façade lies a horrifying secret. Each semester culminates in 'The Crucible,' a brutal social experiment disguised as a leadership exercise. This year, The Crucible has teeth. When students begin dying after failing to complete ethically questionable, increasingly dangerous tasks assigned by anonymous votes, suspicion and terror grip the academy. Sixteen-year-old Alistair, ostracized for his academic prowess, finds himself a target, forced to navigate a deadly game of survival where every vote carries the weight of life and death. Can he uncover the mastermind behind The Crucible before he, too, is consumed by its darkness?

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