When Lily Thornfield arrives at the remote Yorkshire academy, she expects only one thing: another school that will eventually ask her to leave. Her ability to see the dead has made her an outcast everywhere else. But The Liminal Academy was founded for students exactly like her — young people whose gifts set them apart from the ordinary world.

On her very first night, Lily and her new roommate Clara hear weeping echoing through the East Wing corridor. What begins as a supernatural curiosity quickly becomes something far more urgent when the girls make contact with Elizabeth Martin — a former student who died in 1843 and has been searching for a lost treasure ever since.

With the help of Tommy, whose dreams reveal glimpses of the past, Oliver, who reads the emotions of the living and the dead, and Margaret, whose research skills prove as vital as any supernatural gift, Lily sets out to solve a fifty-year-old mystery. But what starts as a search for a missing locket soon uncovers something far darker — a conspiracy that cost Elizabeth her life and may still be claiming victims today.

The Haunted Dormitory is a richly atmospheric YA mystery set in a Victorian-era academy where the supernatural is treated as science, the dead walk among the living, and belonging isn’t something you earn — it’s something you discover.

Perfect for fans of gothic mystery, found family, and stories where being different is the greatest gift of all.