Set in eighteenth century England, Samantha Cohoe’s debut novel, A GOLDEN FURY
(Wednesday Books; October 13, 2020), follows a young alchemist as she tries to save the
people she loves from the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone. The streets of London and
Oxford come to life as this historical fantasy unravels. Weaving together an alluring story
of magic and danger, Samantha’s debut has her heroine making messy decisions as she
toes the line between good and evil while it becomes blurred.
Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of
them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone—whose properties include
immortality and can turn any metal into gold—but just when the promise of the Stone’s
riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent
madness.
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While combing through her mother’s notes, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries
to make it to lose their sanity. With the threat of the French Revolution looming, Thea is sent to Oxford for her safety, to
live with the father who doesn’t know she exists.
But in Oxford, there are alchemists after the Stone who don’t believe Thea’s warning about the curse—instead, they’ll
stop at nothing to steal Thea’s knowledge of how to create the Stone. But Thea can only run for so long, and soon she
will have to choose: create the Stone and sacrifice her sanity, or let the people she loves die.
A GOLDEN FURY and the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone will haunt you long after the final page.