Academy of Beasts

Chloe transfers to Beast-Tongue Academy, where rules forbid lying to animal teachers, approaching hares at dusk, or confessing fear. Rule-breakers mutate and vanish—actually stripped of humanity and turned into beast-keepers. After she herself breaks a rule and begins to change, Chloe uses her wits to expose logical flaws in the code, breaks the century-old cycle, rescues her classmates, finds the true exit, and graduates into a new life