Haunted by the trauma of a high school classmate’s unsolved murder, Mairead Muller sets off on an art scholarship to rural midwestern Thelemite College in the fall of 1985. There, she finds herself bound to the whims of her unscrupulous benefactress as she is forced to create a new version of each card in the tarot. Little did she know that her years at Thelemite would bind her to an evil greater than anything her imagination could conjure. Was her star-crossed fate a result of dabbling in the darker side of the occult as a child…curses, sigils, fortune-telling, and communications with the dead.? Did Mairead’s paranormal flirtations bring her closer to the murders and other unholy events that marked her weird life? And will she ever escape the velvety ropes of black magic to find peace, and maybe even love?
Find out in Colleen McManus Hein’s latest sublimely supernatural novel of dark academia.
