Hellhound Academy

Robin Sullivan doesn't remember how she died. Just that she crawled out of Lady Bird Lake wearing someone else's Sunday best and no pulse. Welcome to Hellhound Academy—Austin's secret training ground for the recently resurrected, where cadets like her protect the living from supernatural threats . . . or get recalled to the underworld. Marked by a mysterious brand and shadowed by a crow with glowing eyes, Robin's only clue to her past is a flicker of memory and a gnawing suspicion. Someone murdered her, and the Academy may be in on it.

After surviving the Gauntlet and claiming a top spot at Hellhound Academy, Robin Sullivan should be gaining answers. Instead, she's collecting enemies. Someone in the Academy wants her gone—again—and this time, forever. The deeper she digs into her past, the more dangerous her second chance at some kind of life becomes. The ghosts in Austin are getting louder. Possessions spike across the city, and a mysterious underworld figure known as the Memory Merchant is stealing more than memories—he may hold the key to Robin's murder.

Barely free of the SXSW hauntings and the lake-dwelling Leviathan, the undead cadet uncovers a black-market Memory Merchant siphoning the past straight out of people's heads. One toxin-tipped dart jolts a buried vision of her own sacrifice, proving the Academy's rot runs deeper than a few rogue ghosts. The trail leads to Mortis, the beloved instructor whose side hustle in soul-trafficking cost Robin her first life. Dragging him before Death's incorruptible court wins a single, chilling clue—Marrows-Board—before the Reapers silence him forever.