Welcome to Deceptive High—where the classes are elite, the secrets are deadly, and your roommate might be a spy.

Lanelle Sparks just wants to dominate the swim team and enjoy her hard-earned single dorm. But when she’s roped into helping a mysterious new student, Ayana Brighten, her school year plunges into chaos. Ayana isn’t thrilled about the buddy system either—especially not when the spy school’s corridors hide more secrets than textbooks.

As Lanelle juggles complicated friendships, old flames, and new crushes, Ayana finds herself caught between fitting in and uncovering a dangerous truth. With their magical world fracturing and a dark force poisoning the heart of The Garden—the mystical realm they thought was just legend—they’ll have to rely on each other, even if they barely get along.

Because someone has invaded their world. And if they don’t stop it in time, magic itself could die