She attended Thomas Aquinas College, a Great Books college in California, and graduated with a BA in liberal arts. Samantha Cohoe was raised in San Luis Obispo, California, where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood of beach trips, omnivorous reading, and writing stories brimming with adverbs. Preorder Today! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository Indigo Author Information 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. With the threat of the French Revolution looming, Thea is sent to Oxford for her safety, to live with the father who doesn’t know she exists.īut in Oxford, 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 streets of Oxford and London come to life, and the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone will haunt you long after the final chapter.

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