author - "Heather Fledderus"

Candace is going back to Belladonna Academy for Girls for her fifth year, returning to the scene where just four months earlier her boyfriend had been killed in an accident that everyone blames her for. Zen Pakto is a transfer student from a small school in Thailand that no one has ever heard of. Manipulating magic in a strange manner and carrying a sword with her, her motives for coming to Belladonna are unclear, but it certainly isn't for the well-rounded education. As enemies begin to circle