Lessons in Cruelty

In the elite boarding school of St. Mark's in the republic of Gatland, a scholarship student discovers that the institution's promises of a better future are a facade for a multinational trafficking ring. The campus is not a utopia; it is a training ground where young women from the impoverished continent of Tarawa are sorted, broken, and sold into the gilded brothels of the capital. As she uncovers a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of state security, she must turn the rules of the adult world against its architects.