Blackwood Academy: A Chilling Supernatural Dark Fantasy

By Ethel Miller

Some schools educate. Others harvest.

Blackwood Academy isn't a school for the gifted. It's a gilded cage for the cursed.
Teens branded with "codicils"-dangerous, uncontrollable fragments of supernatural power-are sent here to learn control. To be made safe. Julian Shepard feels the hidden fears of everyone around him. Mira Vance can deflect any attack, but each shield shatters a bone. Callum Rhodes burns with volatile energy that drains his own life force. Anya Frost moves objects with phantom limbs she can't feel. And Rafe O'Connell sees echoes of the past in everything he touches.

Drawn together as outcasts, they form Hollow Ground, a pact forged on the emptiness of the academy's promises. But Blackwood's secrets run deeper than detention. Students who master their powers don't graduate. They Ascend-and vanish.

When a terrifying vision reveals a horrifying future and a hidden ledger reveals the chilling truth-HARVESTED-the five friends realize they're not students. They're livestock. Their unique, complementary powers aren't an accident; they're a design. And their trust is the key to a ritual that will consume their souls.

Now, their only chance at survival is to turn their curses into weapons.

But as they unravel the nightmare at the heart of Blackwood, a worse truth emerges: the greatest threat may not be the ancient evil feeding on them, but the betrayal growing within their own circle. To escape, they must outrun the shifting halls of a living prison, outsmart a headmaster who is more void than man, and outlast the relentless pull of the Harvest-before the guiding hand that brought them together becomes the one that leads them to the altar.

Step into Blackwood Academy. The tuition is your soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMVGRY52
• ISBN13: 9798247733386
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"