An Arcane Inheritance
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Publisher Description
Elle Magazine Best Fantasy and Science-Fiction Book of 2025
A modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist, perfect for fans of Babel and A Deadly Education.
Warren University has stood amongst the ivy elite for centuries, built on the bones—and forbidden magic—of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the rot of a secret society that will do anything to keep their own powers burning bright. No matter who they must sacrifice along the way.
Ellory Morgan is determined to prove that she belongs at Warren University, an ivy league school whose history is deeply linked to occult rumors and dark secrets. But as she settles into her Freshman year, something about the ornate buildings and shadowy paths feels strangely…familiar. And, with every passing day, that sense of déjà vu grows increasingly sinister.
Despite all logic, despite all reason, despite all the rules of reality, Ellory knows one thing to be true: she has been here before. And if she can’t convince brooding legacy student Hudson Graves to help her remember a past that seems determined to slip through her fingers as if by some insidious magic…this time, she may lose herself for good.
"Draws readers into its spell before asking readers to consider who pays the true price of power—and what it means to refuse to let the powerful win." — Laura R. Samotin, author of The Sins on Their Bones
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Get Out meets The Matrix in this solid excursion into dark academia from Cole (So Let Them Burn). At 21, Ellory Morgan is older than the other freshmen at Warren University in Hartford, Conn. Additionally, her status as a Jamaican immigrant in the awkward American tax bracket where she can't afford college on her own but doesn't qualify for financial aid makes her feel she doesn't belong on the Ivy League campus. As the school year progresses, she experiences increasingly peculiar events: strange hallucinations, feelings of déjà vu, a tattoo on her neck that vanishes as soon as she sees it, and hidden notes in her own handwriting that she doesn't remember writing. One of these notes claims her hated academic rival, Hudson Graves, will help her. Together they dive into Warren's unusual occult history and, in a late and somewhat clichéd twist, discover the startling truth about the Goodwin scholarship that brought Ellory to campus. The resulting tale doesn't break any new ground, but it competently engages with the tropes of the genre, hits expected beats cleanly, and delivers a heartfelt if obvious moral about inequality. Cole's fans will be pleased.
