Leigh Bardugo

Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...

When the dark magical force within him challenges his effort to forge new alliances and build a defense against a new threat, Niolai Lantsov, the young king of Ravka, embarks on a journey to his country's most magical places to vanquish it.