The Library at Hellebore

Alessa Li is forcibly enrolled at the Hellebore Technical Institute, a school for the magically gifted that is really a prison. She is promised redemption, but on graduation day the faculty turns on the students and devours them. Alessa and a few classmates barricade themselves in the school library, where a monstrous Librarian waits among the stacks, and they must offer a human sacrifice every night to stay alive.

Cassandra Khaw tells the story in alternating timelines, one following Alessa's early days at Hellebore and the other the siege on graduation day. A standalone dark academia horror fantasy, it is graphically violent and gory, with body horror and a past of abuse.