Welcome to Gallowgate Academy for Ætheric Arts

Death is but a doorway…

Sebastian Wight is cursed.

For as long as he can remember, he’s been able to see ghosts and ghouls. For the most part, they’ve left him alone… Until now.

When a monstrous shadow with a taste for blood begins hunting him, he learns he comes from a line of Æthercists—people tasked with fighting the restless dead. And his only hope of learning more (and surviving the shadowman) is to attend Gallowgate Academy.

There, he finds himself in a world entirely unlike his own, filled with spirits and sorcery. Gallowgate is a manor of drafty corridors and twisted magic, a school for other outcasts like himself. A place where Sebastian finally begins to feel at home.

But there are dangerous secrets lurking in the halls of Gallowgate. Secrets that endanger everyone he loves.

And if he doesn’t master his newfound powers and reconcile his shadowed past, he may very well join the ghosts he seeks to vanquish.


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