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The Ascension
Paperback
Series: The Selection System, Book 3
Publisher: Dove Rowell
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 768
Weight: 2.22
Height: 1.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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At Saint Aldric's, power was never loud.
It moved quietly-through rooms, through decisions, through the unspoken understanding of who belonged and who didn't.
Arabella built that system.
Not through control.
Through design.
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Now it no longer needs her.
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What began as influence has evolved into something far more dangerous: a structure that exists beyond ownership-shaped by those inside it, carried into spaces it was never meant to reach, and chosen by people who no longer know where it ends... or where they begin.
As the system stabilizes, new tensions emerge:
A boy who refuses to belong-but can no longer ignore its impact.
A girl who steps inside not to follow-but to reshape it.
And a world that is starting to reflect something no one fully controls.
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Because the truth is no longer hidden.
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You cannot control people.
You can only build something they choose to stay in.
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And when they do-
it stops being yours.
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For readers of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars, The Ascension is a razor-sharp, high-society psychological drama about power, choice, and the systems we mistake for our own.
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