The Raking Light
Imogen Thorne · Lyrical dark academia steeped in psychological suspense
If you enjoyed The Secret History, start here.
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About this book
A gifted liar enters the one room where deceit leaves a visible seam, then learns that wax holds ambition to an unforgiving light.
At Ashgrove College, a hidden atelier preserves the dead in wax under one inviolable rule: no figure may falsify the death it records. Gregory Lang gains entry on a borrowed biography and reveals an unnerving talent for making a counterfeit likeness pass as truth. As the enclave’s private ethic tightens around Gregory, his sole way out is one honest pour — a choice that will strip away everything his deception secured.
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- Imogen Thorne
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- 66,170 words
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- 4 hours, 25 minutes
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