This book is a pressure-cooked vial crafted with perfect romantic tension and pure gangster-style grit I loved every chapter RAVEN KENNEDY, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Plated Prisoner series.
Peaky Blinders meets Six of Crows in Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwans stunning new slow-burn romantasy duology traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret in youth and are catapulted into a violent class war in adulthood, finding each other amidst love, loss and devasting betrayals.
Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are only twelve years old when they are whisked from their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to test for magical abilities. Ninas lifelong dream is to become an Artisan, a powerful elemental mage who fulfills the citys grand ambitions, while Patrick wants only to reunite with his family of Craftsmen in the mines.
But together, they discover a devastating secret: Artisans arent born, theyre chosen.
With this information, they part ways. Patrick returns home, while Nina finds her place as one of the rarest, most coveted types of Artisan.
When a Craftsman revolution ignites years later, Nina is captured by Patricks rebel group and he hasnt forgotten her. In fact, he needs her help for a mission that could shift the tides against Belavere City. She reluctantly agrees to aid him, battling the sparks between them. But when Ninas first love reappears, asking her to betray Patrick for the Artisans, she faces an impossible choice that will determine the fate of their world.
A concoction of all the best romantasy tropes:
Elemental magic Found family Tension & Slow burn Political Intrigue / Class War
What readers and authors have been saying about A Forbidden Alchemy:
This book will haunt me storytelling on this level is just remarkable KATHERINE HEIGL, actress
If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would This story has the morally gray characters of my dreams!! I will be telling everyone that I know to read this book. I NEED MORE!! READER REVIEW, 5 stars
Im never going to shut up about this book the romantasy book youll never get over HANNAH NICOLE MAEHRER, internationally bestselling author of Assistant to the Villain
It catapults readers into an immersive romance, a rustic setting, dynamic characters, a world of secrets, ghastly betrayals ... I am obsessed with this book this is the best romantasy I've read READER REVIEW, 5 stars
