From the New York Times bestselling author of the Wild Wynchesters series comes a chilling Gothic horror novel set at a coed boarding school in Scotland, where a teen girl must not only fight against her monstrous male classmates but the monster growing within her after being cursed by sinister fairies.
Seventeen-year-old Catriona Cameron's dream is to become a teacher, but she knows better than to make that wish aloud. In the Sottish highlands, wishes always come with strings attached. The fairies lurking in the darkness make sure of it. Besides, she's already been promised to the local butcher.
But when her foolish brother makes a wish, Catriona receives a scholarship to Floodbane Academy-a prestigious boarding school admitting women for the first time. It quickly becomes clear from their jabs and jeers that the boys want her and the other female students gone. And they'll do anything to make them leave.
After a group of male classmates attack Catriona, the fairies intervene yet again. They bless her with supernatural powers and good looks yet curse her with an insatiable hunger to kill those who prey upon women. As her body count rises, she's forced to question-who's the real savage now? Erica Ridley is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical romance and horror novels. When not reading or writing, Erica can be found riding camels in Africa, getting hopelessly lost in the middle of Budapest, or zip-lining through rain forests in Costa Rica, where she lives with her husband. The Protégée was her first novel for young adults; this is her second.
