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Ungifted
In a small Scottish village on the eastern shore of Loch Ness is Descartes Academy, a seemingly ordinary boarding school with a secret. A secret, Lake Charles is about to uncover...
After a tragic accident leaves her orphaned, Lake is sent halfway around the world to live with her estranged uncle , a professor at Descartes. Starting her junior year in a strange place is hard enough, even worse considering the circumstances that have brought her here. Lake is expecting to find the halls filled with teenage geniuses and offspring of rock stars, but what she really finds is something altogether unexpected. Descartes Academy is a school for the gifted...Gifts of an extraordinary nature. As darkness looms in the corners of Descartes halls, Lake finds herself tossed into the middle of paranormal chaos, a chaos she has to face without the benefit of a Gift.
After a tragic accident leaves her orphaned, Lake is sent halfway around the world to live with her estranged uncle , a professor at Descartes. Starting her junior year in a strange place is hard enough, even worse considering the circumstances that have brought her here. Lake is expecting to find the halls filled with teenage geniuses and offspring of rock stars, but what she really finds is something altogether unexpected. Descartes Academy is a school for the gifted...Gifts of an extraordinary nature. As darkness looms in the corners of Descartes halls, Lake finds herself tossed into the middle of paranormal chaos, a chaos she has to face without the benefit of a Gift.
418 pages, ebook
Published October 31, 2018
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C.J. Inkson
4 books8 followersC.J. Inkson is the author of several young adult novels including The Shadow Kingdom and Fortune's Queen. She loves books about magic, romance, adventure and fantasy. Growing up in the vast planes of the north, books were an escape that led her to a career in writing where she can always explore new, endless worlds.
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November 5, 2018
Great book. I liked the whole idea of someone being "ungifted". It was a nice change from so many stories about wizards and witches with incredible powers. I really liked the mystery and not knowing what was going to happen or what was going on in the school.
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