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

	The room feels stuffy, today, it's hard to breathe. Maybe it's just me, or perhaps it's the concentrated energy the students seem to have. Everyone working to their best capacity, discussing hypothesis based on theories men and women long dead tried to prove. They discuss magic like others discuss literature, and it's beautiful to listen to them. It's beautiful to see their brains open and expand, grow and mature, form thoughts of their own that catapult them into different levels. That make them shine. I can understand Darren's love for teaching, and how rewarding it is. But I'm still a researcher at heart, and it aches to be back in a lab trying to come up with something palpable, something real. Not just ideas thrown into the wind.


Chapter 20