At Kings Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts in 1988, Marcus Lopez learns the craft of killing as he studies to become an assassin, but secrets from his murderous past threaten to surface that would endanger everyone at his school.

Change the world with a bullet. It's 1987 and homeless teenager Marcus Lopez Arguello has no reason to keep living. Until one fateful evening he is approached by a mysterious girl who invites him to join Kings Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, a brutal, clandestine high school, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art, killing is a craft and the dagger in your back is no metaphor....

Freshman year of high school is hard enough, but when our new crew incur the ire of the cruel nerd king Shabnam and his brutal student council, life at Kings Dominion becomes positively gnarly. Meanwhile, Saya's mysterious past comes back to haunt her, with betrayal and subterfuge around every corner. Far away from all this scheming are Marcus and Maria, rare survivors of the deadliest school on earth. But can they truly live out their days on a tranquil...