Perfect for readers of The Secret History and Mexican Gothic. An atmospheric literary mystery that explores the thin line between intellectual obsession and madness.

At Eventide College, the past is never buried?it is exhaled through the ivy and etched into the stone.

Professor Jonathan Ferrars lives in the shadows of academia, a man tethered to a history he cannot outrun and a present he must make peace with. The sanctity of the autumn term is shattered when three of his students are found murdered in a manner that feels less like a crime and more like a ritual.

As the police circle and the college's halls begin to close in, Jonathan realizes the deaths are part of a meticulously crafted architecture of guilt?one designed to make him the centerpiece of its tragedy. To preserve his sanity and his freedom, Jonathan must untangle the rot at the heart of Eventide College before the darkness he's spent a lifetime avoiding finally claims him.

A story of isolation, the seduction of narrative, and the ghosts we carry with us.