Ruth Miranda

FIfteen years after the suicide of two of his friends, Ezra King returns to the prestigious University of St. Cyr, this time as a teacher. Following on the footsteps of his former mentor Darren Whitford, he reopens the elitist study group specialising in Chaos Alchemy, guiding his students in the pursuit of results that will make life easier for all the Nonpareil. When those connected to the prior group, of which Ezra was a part of, start showing up dead, his own demons resurface, and the ghosts lying dormant in St. Cyr threaten to rise from their graves...

This book contains mention of violence, eugenics, rape, and explicit sex scenes.
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Alchemy of Chaos

	"Transmutation, to be effective, must occur not only in the physical body but the spiritual one. This is the basic principle as exposed by Master Theodemus Von Bier on his Treaty of the Transmutation of Species, and it is one that is still regarded as a premise. But what if I were to tell you it is not the spirit, but the psyche, that must undergo a transmutation, whenever the body is forced through one? What if I were to say there are dangers in the careless use of Transmutation and its pursuit? For how can the brain, the psyche, not undergo a transformation, if the body does so? How can the brain not change, if the body does? And how can it not affect the personality of the Transmuter, how can it not taint us and linger in us, sometimes with dire effects? Turn an individual into a wolf at regular intervals, and you will have to deal with the wolf in his hands."


Selena Davenport, On the studies of Psyche and its Alchemy, ed. Notre Dame de Paris, 1998


Chapter 11