The idea of the stone causing madness made for high stakes and tension. A curse that soon puts Thea's own sanity at risk. Everyone wants Thea's knowledge of the stone, and some refuse to believe in the curse of madness.

Her madness leads to the stone's destruction and Thea sets out to make the stone herself to cure her mother, but with the revolution in France heating up she must go to England to stay with a father who doesn't know she exists. They are close to creating the Philosopher's Stone, but Thea's mother locks her out of the lab while she slowly goes mad thanks to 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.Thea Hope wants to be an alchemist of her own instead of living in her cruel mother's shadow. With the threat of a revolution looming, Thea is sent to live with the father who doesn't know she exists.īut 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. 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. 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. Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. In her debut novel A Golden Fury, Samantha Cohoe weaves a story of magic and danger, where the curse of the Philosopher's Stone will haunt you long after the final page. Prepare for a magic that will consume you.' - Rosamund Hodge, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beauty and Bright Smoke, Cold Fire 'Cohoe transmutes the legend of the Philosopher's Stone into a dark, intoxicating tale of ambition, obsession, and sacrifice. Duncan, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints 'A vivid ride through eighteenth century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners.

A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe