Foresyth Conservatory

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Ninth House</em> meets <em>Mexican Gothic</em> in a dark academia gothic mystery where the cards are stacked against reason-and the price of knowledge is blood.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The cards at Foresyth have already been dealt . . . Now it's time for Dahlia to play her hand.</strong></p>