The Raking Light
Imogen Thorne · Dark academia where every lie leaves a seam the light will find
If you liked The Secret History, start here.
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About this book
A scholarship liar becomes the secret atelier's prodigy — at making the wax lie.
Ashgrove College's hidden atelier casts the dead in wax exactly as they died, and a figure may never lie. Gregory Lang talks his way in on a borrowed biography and discovers his true gift: making false wax read as true. The only way back out is a single honest pour that will cost him everything he climbed for.
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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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