As I Descended

Macbeth meets Richelle Mead in this heady, atmospheric YA novel featuring a diverse cast of characters, from an acclaimed literary author.

Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple — but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn’t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything — absolutely anything — to unseat Delilah for the scholarship. After all, it would lock in Maria’s attendance at Stanford — and assure her and Lily four more years in a shared dorm room.

Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. But when feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to blur the distinction between what’s real and what is imagined, it quickly becomes too late for the girls to stop the series of events they’ve set in motion.

From acclaimed author Robin Talley comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair.