The Midnight Syllabus: Blood Oaths and Broken Minds

By Kenneth H. McCormick

THE MIDNIGHT SYLLABUS

When scholarship student Elara Voss arrives at prestigious Blackthorn Academy following her mother's mysterious death, she discovers a dark secret lurking beneath the school's gothic fa ade. For centuries, the academy has served as a gateway for an entity from beyond reality, consuming student consciousness in exchange for forbidden knowledge.
As Elara uncovers the truth about her mother's past at Blackthorn and her aunt's disappearance twenty years ago, she finds herself marked as the next sacrifice in an ancient ritual called the Selection Ceremony. With time running out, she forms unlikely alliances with groundskeeper's son Cassian Rowe and aristocratic legacy student Vivienne de Montfort to stop the ceremony and permanently close the doorway between worlds.
But success comes at a terrible price. Scattered across time like her mother before her, Elara must navigate existence between moments while confronting the entity that has manipulated her family for generations. In a desperate race to save those she loves, she'll discover that some doorways, once opened, can never be truly closed-and that her fractured reality might hold unexpected possibilities.
A haunting dark academia thriller where gothic horror meets temporal science fiction, The Midnight Syllabus explores the price of forbidden knowledge and the courage required to defy fate itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F313R2YD
• ISBN13: 9798315633228
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"