Description

At Branson Academy, brilliance is currency, secrets are weapons, and survival means knowing when you're being played.

When tech prodigy Mackenzie Fleming vanishes from Branson Academy, everyone assumes she ran. But her best friend Lucas Rambally knows better. Mackenzie was too careful. Too brilliant. And dangerously close to exposing something no one was meant to see.

As Lucas searches for answers, he uncovers a world of rivalries, secret alliances, and ruthless power plays. This isn't just a missing person case. It's a game. And someone is several moves ahead. Then Ivy Ishihara—a chess prodigy with a not-so-subtle crush on Lucas—starts delivering dire warnings disguised as strategy. Lucas realizes too late Mackenzie's disappearance wasn't the crisis. It was the opening move.

Now the clock is ticking. The board is set. And if Lucas makes the wrong move, he won't just lose the game. He'll be eliminated.

Named one of the Best Thrillers of the Year by BestThrillers.com, A Game of Malice is a dark academia YA thriller where the deadliest lessons aren't taught in the classroom.