Every moment a lesson, every lesson a trap: the Artifice Academy is a hard place. Surrounded by cruelty and competition, 11-year-old Inga has only guts to get her through. Will defiance be enough? Mad science, friendship or betrayal, Black Sand, politics: Inga dares to hope, walking a tightrope of isolation between failure and madness. A Bundle of parts 1-3 in the Artifice Academy series. A tale in the Black Sands Saga.