Here, and Only Here

For fans of dark academia and imaginative worldbuilding seeking a fresh twist on the boarding school drama, Here, and Only Here by the million-copy bestselling author of A Winter's Promise blends the strangeness of Mexican Gothic with the secret societies of Ninth House. Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place, yet a familiar one. At Here, society is highly stratified and the whole place is organized by ironclad rules and overseen by a rigid ruling class. This year things seem especially off-kilter. A self-effacing student has vanished into thin air. A persecuted outsider goes into permanent exile. A newly-minted prophetess tests her powers. And, behind the scenes, a secret cabal conducts research into an unexplained phenomenon that connects everything. With Here, and Only Here, Christelle Dabos—author of the international sensation The Mirror Visitor Quartet—gives readers an intriguing and penetrating novel that explores the difficulties of fitting in and the private, individual choices that make up the sometimes abhorrent, always unpredictable Collective.

Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d'Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. A Winter's Promise, her debut novel, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-Télérama First Novel Competition in France, and was named a Best Book of the Year by critics and publications in the US, including Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, and Chicago Review of Books. A Winter's Promise was named the #1 Sci-Fi/Fantasy title of the year by the editors of the Amazon Book Review.