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Winterveil

By: Ava Reid
Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland, Eva Kaminsky, Gail Shalan, Emma Love
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The Secret History meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling, dystopian YA novel.

There is no application process for Valeran Academy, but it boasts the brightest – and precociously criminal – students in the nation.

A disgraced politician from a powerful American dynasty.

A coldly brilliant strategist who will sacrifice anything to win.

A former pageant queen with a talent that could change the world.

A prodigious female soldier with an enigmatic past – and a dangerous secret.

With eerie war simulations, cutthroat competitions and foreboding new technology, Valeran trains its students to be elite assets in a Cold War that has dragged on for nearly a century. But as a sinister conspiracy takes shape and these four are drawn together for a mysterious mission, their loyalties are tested, their convictions shaken and they all begin to wonder: are they ushering in a new era of freedom, or tyranny?

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Praise for Ava Reid’s novels:
A Study in Drowning:
A love letter to stories – and to everyone silenced or forgotten in their retelling. ― Allison Saft
A wonderfully written, tense and moving novel that offers its audience an endlessly readable mix of historical fiction, gothic mystery and fantasy romance that will draw you in again and again. ― CultureFly
As merciless as a rising tide and as beguiling as a fairy's bargain. ― Melissa Albert
A masterclass in pacing, characterisation and tension, with a beautiful meditation on stories and who gets to have an authorial voice. ― The Nerd Daily
Praise for A Theory of Dreaming:
Rarely before has a sequel ever felt so entirely necessary … A true dark academia fairy tale, combining magic, mystery and mythology with literature, politics and intertextuality to craft a haunting story of authorship, identity and love. ― CultureFly
A deftly woven mystery, brimming with lyrical writing and compelling characters who will steal your heart. – Rebecca Ross, bestselling author of Divine Rivals
We've been counting down the days ever since until we can find ourselves reunited with Effy and Preston ― Cosmopolitan
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