Lessons in Bloodglass

At Bloodglass Hall, memories cannot lie. Someone has found a way to make them.

Bellatrixa Blackhall has spent years fighting for a place among the realm's most respected scholars. The prestigious Winter Grant is her chance to prove she belongs.

All she has to do is defeat Lucien Ashwick.

Brilliant, infuriating, and born into one of Bloodglass Hall's founding families, Lucien has every advantage Bellatrixa was denied. He also possesses something far more dangerous: the authority to arrest scholars who break the institution's rules.

Then Bellatrixa discovers a flaw in a magically preserved memory.

What should have been an academic demonstration becomes evidence of a deliberate deception. A legal verdict may have been built on a lie, and someone inside Bloodglass Hall is determined to keep it buried.

Forced to investigate together, Bellatrixa and Lucien uncover restricted archives, missing records, and a secret scholarship whose former candidates have disappeared from public life.

Every discovery threatens their careers. Every forbidden question draws the attention of those who control the Hall.

And every moment spent together makes their carefully maintained rivalry harder to believe.

But the deeper they investigate, the more disturbing the truth becomes.

The institution they hoped would define their futures may have been studying them all along.

To expose its secrets, Bellatrixa must trust the one man trained to stop her. Lucien must decide whether loyalty to his family and institution is worth betraying the woman who has taught him to question everything.

Because at Bloodglass Hall, discovering the truth is dangerous.

Proving it could cost them their memories, their futures, and each other.

Lessons in Bloodglass is Book One of The Scholarship of Shadows, an adult dark academia fantasy romance series featuring academic rivals, slow-burn attraction, dangerous memory magic, forbidden research, and a mystery that continues in Book Two, The Founder's Vault.