Bitter Wind. Death's Handmaiden, #2

Nava Ward, the mysterious first year student at the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, is about to receive an offer she would be stupid to refuse. Then she gets an offer she would really prefer to refuse but can't. And soon she must deal with the ghost of a dead actress and the bitter schemes of a mad metaphysicist. It's all pretty normal for the top student at Shinden's best magic school.