Instead of a veterinary academy back home, Niki's parents suddenly ship her off to St. Petersburg to study at LIMBO – the Leningrad Institute of Modeling... what exactly they model, nobody knows. What everyone does know is that something deeply sinister is going on there. Students are sorted into phoenixes and serpents, then instead of Chemistry they study alchemy, instead of Biology – bioenergetics, and instead of Geography – astral travel. And what does their new Art History professor have to teach them? Nothing less than the art of killing. Mr. Black is very, very good at it – Niki saw it with her own eyes. So why is this strikingly handsome murderer still walking free, calmly giving his lectures? Who is he, and can the only witness to the crime expose this demon?





