The Orphean Circle

Brilliance is everything at Harrowbridge University-and someone is willing to kill for it.

When Mara Ellison arrives as a first‑year student, she expects competition, pressure, and sleepless nights. She doesn't expect an invitation to The Orphean Circle, the elite secret society rumored to shape the futures of world leaders. Their rituals are whispered about in dorm rooms. Their influence is undeniable. Their power is absolute.

But the Circle has a darker history-one marked by Rowan Hale, a recruit whose "suicide" never made sense. When Mara begins finding Rowan's coded notes hidden across campus, she realizes the Circle's initiation trials aren't traditions at all. They're psychological experiments designed to break their members, measure their fears, and test how far they'll go to belong.

As the trials intensify and another "accident" strikes, Mara is pulled into a world where loyalty is manufactured, ambition becomes a weapon, and every mind is a potential threat. Someone inside the Circle is watching her more closely than she realizes-and they know exactly why she was chosen.

To survive Harrowbridge, Mara must decipher Rowan's final message, expose the truth behind the Circle's power, and decide what she's willing to sacrifice: her morality, her sanity, or her life.

In the Orphean Circle, belonging has a price. Mara just needs to survive paying it.