Last Scholar of Vesperlyn Twelve climb the mountain. Only eleven come down: - A Dark Academia Psychological Thriller

A slow-burning dark academia mystery.Twelve scholars climb the mountain every year. Only eleven ever come down.Ilsa Marrow has won the last place at Vesperlyn Academy, a school on a mountain that admits twelve brilliant students a year and closes its gates when the snow comes. She is given the tower room, the odd chair at the end of the table, and a view of an observatory that has been locked for twenty years.Then she counts the names on the graduation boards. Eleven. Every year, for a hundred and fifty years.Small things begin to go wrong. Her notes vanish. Her timetable changes. Kind people keep telling her she must be tired. And under the window seat she finds a hidden notebook, written by the girl who had her room twenty years ago, describing the same things happening in the same order.With the gates shut, the telephone dead and winter closing in, Ilsa has until the longest night of the year to find out what happens to the twelfth scholar, what is behind the observatory door, and who went up the hill on the night a boy fell.The Last Scholar of Vesperlyn is a slow-burning dark academia mystery told in two timelines, for readers who love:Secret histories inside old schoolsHidden diaries and locked roomsA snowbound setting with no way outPuzzles the reader can solve alongside the heroineLoyal friendships instead of romanceA clean read: no romance, no profanity and no graphic content.