Her arms were full of flowers: poppies, for rest anemones, for overcoming moonwort, for forgetfulness morning glories, for the dawn of a new day. The last thing Orion said to me, the absolute bastard, was El, I love you so much.Īnd then he shoved me backwards through the gates of the Scholomance and I landed thump on my back in paradise, the soft grassy clearing in Wales that I’d last seen four years ago, ash trees in full green leaf and sunlight dappling through them, and Mum, Mum right there waiting for me. Sullivan, adapted for ebookĬover design and illustration: Faceout Studio/Jeff Miller, based on images © Shutterstock Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.ĭel Rey and the Circle colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.īook design by Simon M. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The Golden Enclaves is a work of fiction. And the first thing I’ve got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war.

Ha, only joking! Actually, it’s gone all wrong. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere. So much for my great-grandmother’s prophecy of doom and destruction. I’m out, we’re all out-and I didn’t even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. And now the impossible dream has come true. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

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