TROPES:
- Forced Proximity (he’s literally tethered to her)
- Only One Bed (for most of the book)
- Professor/Student
- Grumpy/Sunshine
- Hidden Identity
- Hurt/Comfort
- Murder Mystery
- Found Family
- Morally Grey Characters
- Touch Starved
- Lovers to Enemies to Lovers
- Soft Only For Her
- Just a little Cosmic Horror
- Institutional Conspiracy
BLURB:
A necromancy student resurrects the professor who broke her heart to solve his murder—and discovers the conspiracy runs deeper than either of them knew. The Darkest Art is a dark academia gothic romantasy by the NYT bestselling author of Bonetide, for fans of Ninth House, Gothikana & Blood Orange.
At Collegia Mortis, a prestigious university for necromancers, Professor Bastian Vale holds his students to impossible standards and keeps all of them at a distance.
All except Saturna Greythorn.
She’s spent weeks catching glimpses of someone else behind that cold exterior, someone who watches her when he thinks she won’t notice, finding excuses to keep her after class.
Eventually the tension between them becomes too powerful to ignore.
Flames ignite. Hearts get crushed.
And what starts with fire ends in blood.
Saturna finds Baz’s body, brutally murdered.
So she does the one thing that could expose what she really is—she brings her professor back.
Now Baz is bound to her, his life tethered to hers by a bond that could fail at any moment, his memories in pieces, and his killer still walking the halls. Finding the truth means staying close.
Dangerously close.
But the deeper they dig, the more she realizes his murder was only the beginning.
And someone at the Mortis will kill again to keep those secrets buried.
