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The Rose and the Serpent


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the The Mortal Souls Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Dark Academia,
  • Secret Society,
  • Gothic Fantasy,
  • Urban Fantasy,
  • Monsters
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Secret societies lurking in gothic academic settings
  • Grave robbers stumbling into supernatural conspiracies
  • Uncanny relationships where trust is never certain
Publisher Description

A grave robber with a heart. A girl without a soul. Secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Death isn't always the end, especially in the shadowed streets of York. Cassius Watkins has made his peace with the dead, unearthing their bodies for profit and keeping whatever treasures he finds. But when Cash pries open a tomb and finds Edie Buxton-Whyte alive inside, he's thrust into a world where death is just the beginning.

Offered a place at the prestigious All Souls College thanks to his act of heroism, Cash soon hears whispers of a secret society hidden within the cloistered halls. As unsettling visions of Edie haunt his dreams and anonymous threats are slipped under his door, Cash is drawn deeper into a fight he never knew existed. A battle between the monsters that slither in the shadows and the forces working against them.

As darkness closes in and the danger turns out to be closer to home than they ever imagined, Cash and Edie must tread carefully. But the deeper they dig and the more they uncover, the more Cash begins to wonder if Edie is still the girl he risked everything to save...or something else entirely.

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