The teachers also seem to have it in for her, especially the PE teacher, whom students have nicknamed the Vandy. She develops a crush on the handsome, charming Archer Cross, but he has already been claimed by Elodie, and her roommate is Jenna, the school's only vampire and an unwelcome presence at Hecate. Elodie, Anna and Chaston, a trio of black witches, are unhappy when she refuses to join their coven so they become set on making her life miserable. When she arrives at Hecate, which students have nicknamed Hex Hall, she immediately runs into trouble. This is not the first time her powers - and her lack of control over them - have gotten her into trouble, so the Council, the body that governs Prodigium like herself, sentences her to Hecate Hall, a reform school for wayward supernatural beings, until she turns 18. Sophie does her best to cast a spell that will cause a desirable boy to fall for her friend, but things go awry and Sophie is exposed as a witch.

The book opens with Sophie, a 16-year-old witch, trying to help a girl who is crying because she has no date to the prom. In addition to the usual teen issues of boys, classes and petty jealousies, Sophie must also deal with a series of mysterious attacks on fellow students and a great-grandmother who has returned from the dead. It follows 16-year-old Sophie Mercer, who is struggling to gain control of her powers as a witch, as she navigates a new school where she finds herself among others with supernatural powers. Hex Hall is the first in a series of novels by author Rachel Hawkins.

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