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Dark Academia
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Fantasy Competition
Fantasy Gladiators
Fantasy Sports
forthcoming
From Soft
Fromsoft
Gothic Fantasy
Lovecraftian
Monster Battles
Necromancer
Necromancy
New Adult
Rivals to Lovers
The Locked Tomb
Undead
Product details
- ISBN 9781837840854
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Daphne Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At the elite college of St Penderghast's, gravers and spirers train to perfect their skills in the hunt for glory.
Graving is the art of raising the dead and turning their corpses into unnatural abominations built for war.
Spiring is divine-fuelled combat against undead horrors, fought in grand arenas to thrill the insatiable crowds.
Halen Kilchoir would kill (and resurrect) anything to study graving at St Penderghast's. But Hal cannot enlist alone: the only way she can secure admission is to enter a dangerous accord with her mortal rival, Alastair Faulton - a handsome, accomplished spirer and the infuriating exiled scion of the great Faulton dynasty.
If they team up as spirers, fighting gruesome creatures in a cut-throat competition, they could both earn their places at the prestigious college.
As Hal and Alastair fight grisly creatures and ghastly peers side by side, Hal faces the horrors of necromancy and the revolting prospect of a romance with her own nemesis.
For fans of:
📚Dark Academia
🖤Rivals-to-lovers
🗡 Gladiatorial combat
💀Necromancers
🔥Slow burn
🥰Oh god it's so ugly I love it
👑Never meet your heroes
Danielle Knight is of mixed white and Afro-Caribbean descent, grew up in Surrey, and currently works in digital sales for Scholastic. Danielle has a BA in English Literature, Creative Writing & Practice from Lancaster University, and an MA in Publishing & Creative Writing from Kingston. Most importantly, Danielle is a bad movie connoisseur and a writer of all things dark and fantastical. She Tweets @DanieKnight1
