The Alchemy Trials Series

Still haunted by amnesia, alchemy student Amber Fallbrook must work with friends and enemies alike to eradicate an aurum plague turning citizens into metallic statues.
New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent (Soul Screamers, Shifters) pens a dark paranormal romantasy centered on alchemy magic—and those who dare harness it.

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“Twisty… a complicated mixture of fantasy, romance, and mystery.” 
—Publishers Weekly on Book One, The Alchemary

With distrust of alchemy at an all-time high, the Crown has ordered the Alchemary, and Amber with it, to join with its rival school and find a cure for the horrific plague sweeping the kingdom of Aethermere. But the Alkahest campus, located deep inside a remote mountain, harbors as many secrets as the Alchemary.

While the traditionalist Toolkeepers inflame anti-alchemist sentiment across the kingdom, and the brothers who love her chart separate paths through the maze of deception and treachery, Amber tries to make sense of returning memories that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew. 

Unsure who she can trust, Amber must navigate the puzzle of the Alchemary, where allegiances shift and dark shadows of alchemy take hold of students and professors alike. And the closer she gets to a cure, the more of a threat she herself becomes to the secret force determined to topple an entire kingdom. . . .

Neither amnesia nor the brothers trying to steer her fate will stop Amber Fallbrook from uncovering the truth about herself, the Alchemary, and the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent (Soul Screamers, The Shifters) pens a dark paranormal romantasy centered on alchemy magic—and those who dare harness it.

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Naked, knowing little more than her name, Amber Fallbrook does not recognize the stone tower she’s awoken in, or the vast, glittering ocean beyond its window. Turning, she finds a very a different view: a beautiful, nearly nude man stirring in her bed. He is a stranger, as is the man who barges into the room seconds later, clearly expecting to find Amber alone.

Who are they? Who is she? Why can’t she remember?

Shocked to discover that she’s in her dormitory room at the Alchemary—the realm’s prestigious university dedicated to the study of alchemy—Amber has no recollection of having been one of the school’s top students for the past two years. The two men—brothers—are her childhood friends, even if “friends” is not exactly the energy in the room.

One brother claims he wants to protect her, and the other to help her recover her memory. But nothing is at it seems at the Alchemary. Not the intentions of her classmates and faculty, not the stunning, labyrinthine campus, not the two brothers she’s increasingly attracted to—maybe not even Amber herself.

Despite her memory loss, Amber rejoins her classes and prepares for the deadly Alchemary Trials alongside the other Mastery-level students. But as invigorating as the flowing language and symbology of alchemy is, she can’t help but notice that for an institution shining light on the quest for human perfection there are a lot of dark shadows in its winding corridors.

Tropes: Amnesia / Love triangle / Brothers / Alchemy magic / Romantasy / Tortured hero / Dark past / Dark secret