The Spellbinders

Ten Spellbinders wake up in the deserted halls of their school with no magic and no memory of the past 48 hours. When an eerie voice announces that their teachers want them to fight to the death — “They’re pulling a Hunger Games on us!” a character remarks — what follows is a mad rush to escape the school and regain their magic. As time slips away and escape seems impossible, the Spellbinders come to realize that they are being punished for a crime they don’t even remember committing… and their tormentor is not a teacher, but a student. Echoing Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None”, but set in a magic school similar to that of Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians”, “The Spellbinders” presents a world where even magic users struggle with jealousy, trauma, and mental illness