Dead Beat

Alex Stern survived the descent into hell, but the gate she opened behind her didn't close. Demons are slipping through into New Haven, feeding on the living and unsettling the dead, and it is only a matter of time before the doors to the underworld open fully.

To stop it, Alex and her allies have to go deeper into Yale's secret societies than ever before, and confront a truth hidden in Alex's own blood. She is also up against a corrupt Lethe Board and a vampire with his own ties to the societies, even as she tries to hold on to the future Yale once promised her.

Darlington, her mentor, is back in the flesh after his time in hell — but not unchanged, and carrying dangerous new power. The third book in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series closes out the trilogy that began with Ninth House and Hell Bent.