The Last Graduate

El starts her senior year at the Scholomance, a school of magic with no teachers and no way out except graduation. Students without the protection of an enclave must fight monsters to get there, and many die on the way. El carries a prophecy that says she will become a destructive force, and she has decided to refuse it.

Her aim this year is bigger than her own survival. She wants everyone in her year to live, friends and rivals alike. Enclave politics keep pulling at the alliances she has built, and the students who once had little reason to trust her still have little reason now. Orion, Aadhya and Liu stay at her side.

Together they find a lost spellbook that could alter how wizards defend themselves against the mals, the creatures that hunt them through the school. Using it means staying alive long enough to learn what it can do.

This is the final book in the Scholomance trilogy, a dark fantasy told in El's first-person voice. As graduation nears, the real purpose of the school comes into view, and El must decide how far she will go for people who have never trusted her. Expect a tense, claustrophobic school setting where danger is constant and the stakes keep rising.