The Evercrest Chronicles: Eros and Ivy | Book 1: Whispers Of Want

Connecticut, 1907. The American Revolution failed a century ago. Britain still rules the colonies, and magic — real, academic, institutional magic — is the engine that kept the Crown in power. But there is an older discipline. One the Church spent centuries burning out of existence. Eromancy. A magic where human emotion is not metaphor but measurable force. Attraction glows amber. Love pulses ruby. Shame shimmers sapphire. Passion burns violet. Every feeling has a colour, and every colour can be drawn from the willing, stored in gemstone, and spent like coin. It is the physics of human experience — and it has been forbidden since the Crusades. Sir Roland Wardmont, scholar and war veteran, has been appointed headmaster of Evercrest Abbey, a women's academy built on ancient stone and converging leylines. He didn't take the post for the title. Beneath the Abbey sits the only surviving collection of pre-Crusade eromantic texts in the known world, and Roland intends to prove that this magic can be taught ethically before someone else teaches it without scruple. He needs a student. Someone with the rare ability to perceive emotional colour unaided. Clara Brytwell, a scholarship student with an arithmetical mind and five shillings a week to her name, can see things she was never taught to look for. She didn't come to Evercrest for magic. She came for an education and a room of her own. What she finds instead is a discipline that makes every unspoken feeling visible — and a man whose careful distance is betrayed by every hue that gathers around him when she enters the room. What begins as academic collaboration becomes something neither of them can afford and neither of them can stop. The Evercrest Chronicles is a slowburn historical fantasy with a romance-driven plot, a hard magic system, and the prose ambitions of Rothfuss and Jordan. Book 1 is serializing now.