At the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with the healerās gift has five years to master their power and to prepare for the infamous Grand Examāa five-day trial whose results will determine their entire future.
The list of exam rules includes:
ā¢ You will perform five practical cases.
ā¢ Your exam group is chosen at random.
ā¢ You pass together, or fail together.
It does not include:
ā¢ On the first day, your exam group will find a classmateās dead body in the exam hall.
And as they will soon discover, this particular group all have something to hideā¦ and all have a connection with the dead girl, a brilliant scholar who would have been first in their class.
Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days in which to solve a murder, pass the most important exam of their lives, and uncover a secret larger than all of their own combined. One with the potential to change the world.
that's right, folks: it's the next book! coming in september this year, on both sides of the pond.
this one took me decades to brew, months to plan, and a hellish couple of years to write. it's been the bane of my existence and I am THRILLED that it's going to be out in the world soon so I can make it everyone else's problem.
it's half dark academia and half a murder mystery. it has five narrators and they're all having the worst week of their life, and I love them & their terrible decisions so much.
and now, most importantly: is it gay?
yes. yes it is. (m/m and f/nb romances)
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