An Academy for Liars
After catching her fiancé with her best friend at their own engagement party, Lennon Carter—adrift and near despair—receives a mysterious summons to Drayton College, a school hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah and devoted to the art of persuasion: the power to bend others, and even matter, to one's will. Lennon proves rare and dangerously gifted, drawing the attention of her enigmatic mentor, Dante Lowe, as her training pulls her into the school's buried secrets and the corrupting seduction of absolute power. A dark-academia fantasy of obsession, power, and desire.
A young woman fleeing a broken engagement who is recruited to Drayton College and discovers a rare gift for persuasion magic.
Lennon's charismatic academy advisor and mentor, whose own troubled past draws him into a fraught romantic entanglement with her.
Lennon's roommate at Drayton College, a survivor whose hard-won practicality makes her one of Lennon's few genuine allies.
Lennon's unfaithful fiancé, whose betrayal sets the story in motion.
No. An Academy for Liars is published and marketed as adult fantasy (Ace/Penguin Random House), and its content — including psychological abuse, sexual exploitation, and violence — is intended for adult readers rather than a YA audience.
An Academy for Liars is a standalone novel. Author Alexis Henderson has said she would like to write a sequel someday but has no announced plans to do so as of this book's publication.