From the author of The Diviners series comes the first installment of the Gemma Doyle Trilogy a dark and eerie supernatural period drama. Its 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in British India to Spence Academy, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemmas reception at Spence is a chilly one. To make things worse, shes being followed by a mysterious young Indian man who has been sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spences most powerful girls and their foray into the spiritual world lead to?