Dead Languages, Living Lies
A Dark Academia Novel

About this book:

At St. Jude's Classics Department, the Sterling Fellowship is the only ticket out—and only one of two bitter rivals can claim it. Helena Vance fights with meticulous paleography and a chip on her shoulder; Julian Thorne counters with effortless brilliance and a pedigree that opens every door. When Helena discovers a seventeenth-century letter scrubbed clean of a dangerous confession, their academic bloodsport ignites into something far deadlier: a conspiracy reaching from the basement vaults to the department chair's office, where a revered scholar's legacy rests on a three-hundred-year-old forgery.

Forced into a fragile alliance, Helena and Julian navigate locked archives, coded marginalia, and the intoxication of forbidden knowledge—all while the line between hatred and something far more dangerous blurs in the dim light of the stacks. But in a world where history is written by the powerful, exposing the truth means risking not just the fellowship, but their careers, their futures, and the fragile truce between them.

*Dead Languages, Living Lies* is a razor-sharp dark academia thriller where textual criticism becomes detective work, rivalry masks obsession, and the most dangerous translation is the one that reveals what powerful men will kill to keep buried.