The Ordeals By: Rachel Greenlaw

• Cecelia Ahern, a Sunday Times Number One bestseller, “absolutely treasured it from beginning to end.”
• The book promises a blend of “Old Magic. New power. A contest to die for.”
• The protagonist is Sophia DeWinter, who has a dark past.
• She’s been bound by a blood bond to her cruel uncle, known as the Collector, since childhood.
• This bond gives the Collector oppressive control over her life.
• Sophia learns about Killmarth, an elite academy specifically for magic wielders.
• Crucially, Killmarth is outside the Collector’s sphere of influence.
• She sees Killmarth as her only shot at breaking free from her uncle’s grip.
• To gain entry, hopefuls must compete in a series of “brutal and deadly challenges” called the Ordeals.
• The Ordeals are incredibly dangerous, and simply surviving them is a feat.
• But the danger doesn’t stop there: hopefuls are being “viciously picked off one-by-one.”
• This suggests a murderer or dangerous force within the academy.
• To survive, Sophia might consider teaming up with another challenger.
• One potential ally mentioned is the “powerful wielder Alden Locke.”
• However, Sophia faces a critical dilemma: how can she tell an ally from a rival?
• Even more terrifying, how can she identify a potential murderer among them?
• The central conflict asks if Sophia, in her desperate haste, has traded one danger for another.
• Has she “risked everything only to run from the flames and into the fire”?
• A reader review perfectly describes it as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets the Scholomance series!”
• Demi Winters praises its “captivating world building, a seriously twisty plot, and a steamy romance.”
• She also found it “impossible to put down.”
• Tessonja Odette calls it “Deliciously dark with high stakes and a sizzling hot romance.”
• She emphatically states that “The Ordeals is not to be missed!”
• The book features a strong element of mystery and intrigue alongside its magical setting.
• It looks like an intense journey of survival, uncovering secrets, and perhaps even finding romance amidst peril.