DCU, the Underground, where the magic is melanated & the rules hit different!

“This the Underground. We don’t move like the rest of the world…”
And trust—they don’t.

A MAGICAL HBCU by Granger (yes, Desiree herself)? Oh, I’m locked in! If you know her pen, you already know she don’t write regular. She writes real-deal, creative, Black AF stories—and Drew Collins University is no exception.

Now lemme tell you—DCU is LITERALLY underground, right beneath ATL. That lil’ ATL Easter egg? Genius. If you know about “The Underground” back in the day, this hit different. Above ground: regular Black folks. But below? It’s a whole hidden world full of vamps, wolves, witches, sirens... and my man Quan (I love him fr).

What starts off as Maggie spilling tea from her grandma turns into a whole wild ride of magic, growth, and glow-ups. She ends up at DCU with her crew, tryna figure out who she is and where she belongs—and babyyyy, the journey is fire.

Granger snapped with this one. She built a whole universe, and if you peep the cameos from her other books? Chef’s kiss. We love a connected universe.

And the way she ended this? CLIFFHANGER had me ready to throw my Kindle. Then boom—she hit us with an author note that got me staring at the ceiling like… “Wait, WHO TF DID IT??”