A SHARPER, MORE LASTING PAIN

A Sapphic Fantasy Dark Academia Novel

Summary

After their girlfriend’s best friend is wounded in a monster attack, Simone Allard stumbles across a plot much deeper than they anticipated. As they work to find a cure to their own forming illness and find out the truth, one question remains: how was Nadia involved in this?Nadia DuPont doesn’t know how much time she has or even what is ailing her, but it all gets more complex after meeting Simone on a field trip. As they both work to find a cure to her ailment, all Nadia is certain of is she's on the path to ruin.

Content Warnings

  • Body horror

  • Death

  • Drug use

  • Forceful mind entry

  • Illness

  • Sex (including of the kinky variety)

  • Suicidal ideation

  • Terminal illness

  • Violence

  • Vomiting

Tropes

  • Betrayal

  • Codependent friendships

  • Conspiracies

  • Magic colleges

  • Mind-melding drugs

  • Monster attacks

  • Moon x Sun (with a twist)

  • Nonbinary x Sapphic

  • Sigil magic

  • Toxic WLW/MLM solidarity

  • Whydunnit

Representation

  • Black MC

  • Sapphic MC

  • Nonbinary MC

  • Chronically/terminally ill MC

  • MCs of color

  • Side characters of color

  • Neurodivergent MC

  • Disabled side character

  • Mentally ill MC

  • Achillian MC

© Alex Harvey-Rivas, @authoralexharvey