Despite her best efforts, Alicia's evil nature has gone mostly unnoticed--except when it comes to Liz Cather. She takes every chance she can get to knock the heroine and her naive altruism down a peg. But a sharp tongue alone doesn't get you into the history books, and Alicia's tired of being stuck at home while her rival lives it up at the magic academy. Until one day, Alicia gets an offer from the king that's impossible to refuse--she can enroll in the academy early, and all she has to do is.be a villain! It's a blank check to let her wicked instincts run wild, and Alicia's going to see just how far the king's money will go.