This book is full of betrayals, madness, and an all encompassing need to make the Philosopher’s Stone. Thea's mother goes mad trying to create the stone which forces Thea to go to Oxford to find her father whom she has never met and doesn't know she exists for help. Once there, she is betrayed by her father's lab assistant and then her father himself all because they want to be the one to make the Stone. After Dominic, another lab assistant, murders in self defense he and Thea flee to Thea's mother's former assistant Will. Soon after arriving at Will's, they are all kidnapped and forced to make the Stone to fulfill Will's debt to the Prussians, but the stone isn't what everyone believes it to be. Who will survive? #NetGalley