SYNOPSIS:

​At Blackwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school for the supernatural elite, the curriculum is as deadly as the students. When Rian, a popular student, is found brutally slaughtered in the campus gardens—his body used as a vessel for a forbidden botanical ritual—the school’s administration is quick to bury the truth. They claim it was a rogue animal, a glitch in the system, a tragic accident. ​But Jade Nightshade, a cynical teenage occultist who communicates better with the soil than with the living, knows better. Guided by the Occultum, a sentient book of shadows that bleeds when a lie is told, Jade begins a dangerous investigation that stretches far beyond the academy's iron gates. ​As a second body is discovered miles away on Route 265, Jade realizes she’s not just hunting a killer—she’s uncovering a "Purification Experiment" led by the school’s own corrupt leaders. To solve the mystery, Jade must embrace her heretic heritage, outsmart the FBI, and protect a misunderstood monster that the world wants to destroy. In a place where everyone has a power, Jade's greatest weapon is her lack of soul—and her willingness to burn paradise down to save a fellow outcast.

BLACKWOOD