The Secret History meets Twilight in this gripping Dark Academia which took the German bestseller charts by storm! A single choice leads to a fate she could never have imagined... Cambridge student Mabel Golding learned long ago to keep her head down and avoid getting entangled in other people's drama, but when her best friend, Zoe, is drawn into the circle of a mysterious student society with centuries of history that makes Mabel inordinately uneasy, she soon finds herself dangerously close to the heart of The League of Starlings, and to the inscrutable Cliff. Now, as Mabel begins to unearth the Starlings' secrets, the higher the death toll climbs, and soon she realises that there is so much more to this ancient society than meets the eye, and so little chance to escape the reckoning that is coming...