Ninth House

Alex Stern, a member of Yale’s freshman class, is the most unlikely candidate for the university. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mother and an unknown father, Alex dropped out of school at an early age and became involved with drug dealers. At age twenty, Alex witnessed a horrific crime that led to the death of her boyfriend: the murder of her drug dealer and his friends. Some might say that she has thrown her life away. However, she is offered a second chance—to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What is the catch and why her? Still searching for answers to this herself, she arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of future politicians, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. Alex discovers that their occult activities are more sinister than any paranoid imagination could conceive.