The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An elite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. And the more new scholarship girl Cassie Bell learns about the Academy, the more curious she becomes.

What sinister secrets are guarded by the Few - the select group of students who keep outsiders away? Who is the dark stranger prowling the corridors at night? And what really happened a year earlier, when the last scholarship girl died in mysterious circumstances?

One thing Cassie will discover is that a little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but knowing too much can be deadly...

This is book 1 in Darke Academy .

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Hodder & Stoughton General Division .

The Darke Academy series is been written by experienced author Gabriella Poole and developed after extensive research with children by Hothouse Fiction (creators of the Darkside series for Scholastic, which won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize in 2007).