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Foresyth Conservatory
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: A. L. Sterling
Published: Oct 25 2025
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ninth House meets Mexican Gothic in a dark academia, gothic mystery where the cards are stacked against reason-and the price of knowledge is blood.
Dahlia Blackburne is a failing bookstore keeper and Tarot reader who relies on deductive reasoning-not magick-to cast her fortunes. When a stranger calling himself the Meister walks into her shop after closing and offers three times her normal rate for a reading, curiosity and her growing debts compel her to accept.
But the reading reveals that the Meister has a far more dangerous proposition: infiltrate Foresyth Conservatory, an elite occult arts graduate school, and investigate the alleged suicide of brilliant but troubled student, Julian Earhardt.
Desperate to care for her ailing mother after her father's recent death, Dahlia agrees to investigate. But inside Foresyth's rose-thorned walls, Dahlia is thrust into the school's ruthless academic Circle, a cadre of students including the seductive Trees, Aspen and Sequoia, who are obsessed with creating art that doesn't merely imitate life, but transcends it.
As the line between performance and passion blurs, Dahlia must confront the truth about Julian, her peers, and a dangerous form of magick that isn't taught-but inherited.
The cards at Foresyth have already been dealt . . .
Now it's time for Dahlia to play her hand.
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