![]() She was lying on a hospital bed when House Lethe found her and offered her a free ride to Yale. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. The protagonist of Ninth House is Alex Stern, a young woman who can see ghosts, a skill that was such a curse in her early life that it eventually landed her in the hospital after someone tried to kill her. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. What’s the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. ![]() Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite. ![]()
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