Turns out it made the dress tighten and squeeze Elodie until she couldn't breathe. Elodie's was beautiful, so Alice gave Sophie a curse to make it change into a hideous colour. She reveals that she is Alice, Sophie's great-grandmother, and they meet in the woods where Alice teaches her how to use her magic properly.įor the All Hallows Eve Ball, the witches have to make their own dresses. Happily Ever Ending: Sophie finds out that she is from a long line of witches with very great power and she was sent to Hecate to be safe from people who want to kill her (it's revealed later on that this isn't true, but we'll get to that P ). One night, Sophie is woken by the green ghost who has been following her around the school. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.Īs a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.

witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.īy the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father-an elusive European warlock-only when necessary. Synopsis from Goodreads: Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch.

Hex hall by rachel hawkins