The Dead List

THE DEAD LIST – Book One At Blackwood Academy, the future is everything. Hidden deep in the mountains of Vermont, the prestigious boarding school is home to the children of politicians, celebrities, billionaires, and prodigies. For generations, Blackwood has produced some of the most powerful people in the world. To outsiders, it is a place where dreams are made. To students, it is a place haunted by a legend. Every year, an anonymous list appears somewhere on campus. Five names. Five students supposedly destined to die before graduation. The tradition has existed for decades, and most people dismiss it as a cruel prank. Yet whispered rumors tell a different story. Too many names from old lists ended up dead. Too many accidents, disappearances, and tragedies followed. When seventeen-year-old Elias Vale returns for his senior year, he has only one goal: graduate, earn his scholarship, and leave his troubled past behind. As one of the few students at Blackwood who comes from a working-class family, he already feels like an outsider among the wealthy elite who run the school. Then the new Dead List appears. And Elias's name is at the very top.