The Oxford Inheritance

American Cassie Blackwell is a new student at Oxford University, but she is there for more than a first-tier education. Cassie is hiding a lot of secrets about who she is and how she got there. Mostly, the teen is hiding that her mother went to Oxford before she fled to America to have a baby. Her mother also went insane and killed herself when Cassie was 14. While digging to uncover her mother's past and find out her father's identity, Cassie also begins to unearth a dark secret held at the university itself. After her roommate commits suicide, the protagonist becomes embroiled in a greater mystery with complicated layers, including a secret society and centuries of power, intrigue, and murder that are all seemingly embedded within the very foundation of Raleigh College at Oxford. While trying to investigate and simultaneously manage the attentions of men who may not be all that they seem, Cassie discovers that the dark arts are playing a role in her life. The obvious holes in the plot of this gothic mystery and the ever increasing necessity to suspend disbelief are far outweighed by the gripping story line, magnetic characters, and wonderfully detailed description of student life at Oxford.