'If you liked Belle Revolte by Linsey Miller or All That Glitters (previously Enchantée) by Gita Trelease, you will love A Golden Fury.' - NerdSpan 'Cohoe situates the supernatural among the historical, referencing the French Revolution and the Enlightenment while.keeping a sense of urgency as Thea struggles with the magical, demonic pull of the Stone.' - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 'An engaging concoction of fantasy, romance, and historical fiction.' - Booklist But Thea can only run for so long, and soon she will have to choose: create the Stone and sacrifice her sanity, or let the people she loves die.

With the threat of a revolution looming, Thea is sent to live with the father who doesn’t know she exists.īut there are alchemists after the Stone who don’t believe Thea’s warning about the curse-instead, they’ll stop at nothing to steal Thea’s knowledge of how to create the Stone. While combing through her mother’s notes, Thea learns that there’s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher’s Stone-whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold-but just when the promise of the Stone’s riches is in their grasp, Thea’s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness. Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. In her debut novel A Golden Fury, Samantha Cohoe weaves a story of magic and danger, where the curse of the Philosopher’s Stone will haunt you long after the final page.

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