Once upon a time, my life was perfect. I ruled high school with an iron fist and an impeccable sense of fashion. Then on my eighteenth birthday, my days of power ended with a burst of light–literally. Gold balls of light shot out of my hand when I heard the wishes of my peers whisper across my mind, resulting in me getting suspended. Me, Mercedes Davenport! But that wasn’t even the worst part of the day. No; that happened when I was invited to the Academy for the Exceptionally Gifted, or as I call it, Jinn Academy, a magical school just for genies. And finding out that I was one of them. Now I’m stuck at Jinn Academy until I complete all the courses that will allow me to safely live in the human world without causing a magic malfunction. But with my powers on the fritz, I may be stuck here forever. Seriously, could my life get any worse?

If you would have asked me a year ago if genies existed and that I was one of them, I would have given you the directions to the nearest mental institution. But here I am, starting my second year at the Academy for the Exceptionally Gifted, or as I call it, Jinn Academy, a school for genies that teaches them how to control their powers so they can live peacefully in the human world. But unlike last year, I’m expected to put my life on the line in the Jinn Trials, a dangerous competition where many genies have died facing monsters that most people have only ever dreamed of. And all to prove my worthiness in the jinn society. Please, as if I–Mercedes Davenport–really have to prove myself of anything. There’s no way they can force me to do something so barbaric, can they? And if so, will I really be able to survive?

Two years ago, I never would have imagined myself graduating from Jinn Academy, but here I am, starting my third year. Though graduation isn’t the only thing that’s on my mind; there is something going on here at school, something dangerous. It’s up to me and my friends to find out what it is and put a stop to it, because if we don’t . . . there may not be a graduation to attend to.