Forest Demands Its Due

Regent Academy has a long and standing storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont.

But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for moulding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious - and even more entangled with the forest- than anyone would suspect.

Seventeen-year-old Douglas wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making; he's just trying to forget his previous life and survive his present. But then a student is killed, and no one except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son, Everett, remembers him ever existing.

As Douglas begins to research what he finds to be a centuries-long curse, he and Everett awaken a horror hidden within the forest. To save the school, and the town, the forest is demanding more blood as payment. But will Douglas and Everett be able to pay that debt?

In this high-octane, page-turning, dark academia mystery of murder and magic, critically acclaimed author Kosoko Jackson explores how power can - and will - corrupt absolutely and how cycles of violence are perpetuated throughout history