Vita Nostra Books in Order

Teenager Sasha Samokhina follows a mysterious man’s disturbing instructions and is sent to the Institute of Special Technologies. The school’s punishing studies draw her into a transformation that challenges her understanding of reality and the life she has left behind.

After becoming a powerful part of the Great Speech, Sasha returns to the Institute under her mentor’s manipulative control. Her ability to reshape reality threatens the existing world, while a new love gives her enemies another way to pressure her.

Sasha must prepare a fearless new world for students who cannot master the Speech underlying reality. Recovering fragments of the old world means drawing her brother and former classmates into a struggle over existence itself.