Beautiful Ascension

Beautiful Ascension closes out P.H. Nix's Edgewood Academy Elites series, a dark why-choose college romance. Having been targeted and broken by the powerful Heirs who effectively run Edgewood and its town, the heroine comes back for the final confrontation with a plan to turn the tables — on the group who hurt her and on the town that let it happen.

As the series' concluding installment, the book resolves the "why choose" arc built across the prior books, with the heroine ending up with more than one of the Heirs as the group's internal loyalties and obsessions are put to the test. The tone throughout is possessive and morally grey rather than sweet, in line with the series' dark-romance branding.

Content in the Edgewood Academy Elites series includes bullying, psychological pressure, and other dark-romance staples; readers sensitive to those themes should approach with that in mind.