The Alchemy Trials Series

Still haunted by amnesia, alchemy student Amber Fallbrook must uncover the cause of a plague turning citizens into metallic-toned statues. But the rot at the heart of the realm runs deeper than even she suspected.

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.

After the shocking truths uncovered in The Alchemary, Amber Fallbrook has been forced into an uneasy alliance with an enemy. But her trials—both literal and personal—are far from over. The Alchemary has been ordered to work with its rival, the Alkahest, to find a cure for the aurum plague. To avoid derailing the third-year trials, the schools will host a combined Red Trial at the distant Alkahest campus, hidden deep inside a remote mountain.

With distrust of alchemy at an all-time high, a sentiment the traditionalist Toolkeepers enflame for their own use, Amber must work with new rivals and old friends to prepare for the Red Trial, design a cure for the plague, and make sense of returning memories that threaten to upend everything she thought she knew. As if that weren’t enough, the Alkahest has secrets of its own, and the two brothers bonded to her by love, friendship, and alchemy seem to have conflicting ambitions.

As allegiances shift and dark corners of alchemy take hold of students and professors alike, Amber isn’t sure who she can trust. And the closer she gets to a cure, the more of a threat she becomes to the secret force determined to take over 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.