The Golden Enclaves

The last student to escape the Scholomance graduation bloodbath, El is back in Wales with her mum, desperately trying to extract Orion from the consequences of his foolish heroics. Wallowing in failure and heartbreak, El then discovers that her parents were responsible for summoning the Golden Stone sutras that can help to build clean Enclaves of safety for wizards. In doing this, they unwittingly cursed their unborn child – her. But despite El and her friends having lured most of the world’s mals to their doom, something is attacking Enclaves. El is also determined to return to the Scholomance to put Orion out of his misery and along the way discovers that his parents are responsible for his fate. Can she overcome the powers ranged against her and find a way to heal and redeem something from the debacle wrought by maleficent magic? She has to travel far and wide for the answer to that and to solve the mystery of the black heart of the Enclaves and the reality of her destiny. This final lesson of the Scholomance goes to some surprising places and poses some interesting moral dilemmas for El and her allies. Turns out that good versus evil is rarely a black and white issue. This is complex dark fantasy, with satisfyingly imperfect characters and motivations.