The golden enclaves : a novel / Naomi Novik.

Map on lining pages.

Sequel to: The last graduate.

"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother's prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn't kill enclavers, I saved them. Me and Orion and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: We saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves everywhere. Ha, only joking! Actually, it's gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war. And the first thing I've got to do now, having miraculously gotten out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in"--

The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. El and her friends changed the nature of the Scholomance forever. But now that she is back in the real world, will the lessons she learned inside the school apply? Will her grandmother's prophecy come true, and El will spell the doom of all the enclaves forever? An enclave war is brewing, and El is about to learn the most significant lesson of all: the dire truth on which the enclaves and the whole stability of the magical world are founded. -- adapted from jacket and Goodreads info