Cry of Crows

The Craft + Skulls + Sorority Row with an unsettling Southern college setting shrouded in the mists of superstition and folkloreAfter her father dies, Annabeth Chandler leaves Memphis for Chesterbrook College, an exclusive campus tucked deep in the Appalachian foothills, hoping it will give her a fresh start. But Chesterbrook Valley carries its own darkness. The locals whisper that the grounds of the college are cursed.On move-in day, construction crews unearth a body. Annabeth and her roommate soon stumble onto a chilling truth: students have been vanishing from Chesterbrook College for more than a century. Each disappearance feeds a sinister pattern—and something hungry still lingers.With crows gathering on her dorm roof, their cries pierce the silence as foreboding warnings that fill Annabeth with dread. As she navigates the effects of grief and the bonds of friendship, every smile hides a secret and every shadow holds a threat.Combining the haunting sophistication of Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas and the chilling supernatural suspense surrounding dark academia in Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House, Cry of Crows is a Southern gothic thriller that will have readers turning pages until the final climactic showdown.