Victor Vale and Eli Ever started out as college roommates?brilliant, arrogant, lonely
boys who discover that, under the right conditions, someone can develop
extraordinary abilities - become ExtraOrdinary. But when their thesis moves from
the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. And a chain of events is
unleashed and Merit City becomes the stage for the extraordinary battle between
Victor and Eli.
Read the complete Villains fiction, containing Vicious, Vengeful, the prequel short
story, 'Warm Up'.

V.E. Schwab is the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible
Life of Addie LaRue, Vicious, The Near Witch and the Shades of Magic series, which
was described as "a classic work of fantasy? by Deborah Harkness. It was one of
Waterstones' Best Fantasy Books of 2015, The Guardian's Best Science Fiction
novels, and a Telegraph choice. The Independent has called her "The natural
successor to Diana Wynne Jones.? She lives between Nashville, France and
Edinburgh.