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A Lesson in Vengeance
Victoria Lee
Thriller
Mystery
Psychology
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Banned for its LGBTQ+ themes, "A Lesson in Vengeance" explores witchcraft, elite boarding schools, and psychotic depression through a gothic lens. Victoria Lee's Rainbow Award-winning thriller gives complex representation that readers with similar mental health struggles call "validating" rather than villainizing.

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Felicity Morrow returns to the prestigious Dalloway School with a heavy burden. After her girlfriend Alex's death the previous year, she's determined to finish her senior year in the same crooked stone building where tragedy struck. Godwin House rises from the Catskill foothills like a Gothic specter, its weathered facade bearing witness to generations of literary students. Despite her mother's suggestion to transfer elsewhere, Felicity feels drawn to these haunted halls. "At least here," she thinks, running fingers along the worn banister, "the walls know me." The house feels eerily empty compared to last year's energy and laughter. When Felicity discovers someone new occupying Alex's old room, the boundaries between past and present begin to blur. The mysterious new student leaves dirty coffee cups in the kitchen and reads on the porch in a seersucker suit, smoking cigarettes with detached sophistication. Their first encounter ends with a slammed door, setting the tone for a relationship that will prove both intoxicating and deadly. The creak of floorboards and whisper of wind through ancient eaves seem to carry echoes of the past. Is Godwin House truly haunted, or are the ghosts merely in Felicity's mind? As September fades into autumn, the line between reality and imagination grows increasingly thin in this isolated corner of campus.

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The Enigmatic Ellis Haley

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Witchcraft's Dark Legacy

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