Readers will be wowed. " Publishers Weekly (starred review) Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent. Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy Alex Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatoryeven if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes cant call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these arent just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, shell have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the universitys very walls. Thick with history and packed with Bardugos signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.