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- Content warnings: Racism/bigotry, Classism, Death, Anxiety, Panic attacks, Sexual content, Violence, Attempted murder, Body horror, Murder, Injury detail, Gaslighting, Sexism, Misogyny, Kidnapping
An Arcane Inheritance
by Kamilah Cole
Ellory and Hudson spar like every seminar grade is personal. Then the campus starts remembering what its founders buried.
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Length432 pages
Story statusStandalone
Spice1/5 · Tension / anticipation focus
PacingSlow
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Academic rivals
- Male/female pairing (M/F)
- Slow burn
- Low
- Tension / anticipation focus
- Cathartic release
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- Rival / competitor
- Rivals to lovers
- Romantic / sweet
- The angst delivered
- Morally gray
- Intellectual satisfaction
- Protector
- Intellectual connection
- Mutual pining
- Class difference
Fantasy promise
- Urban fantasy romance
- College romance
- Academy / campus
- Contemporary
- Ghosts
- Dark academia romance
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- Secret society / club
- Academy / school
- Low fantasy / secret magic
- Secret society
- Urban fantasy
- Romantic suspense
Reading experience
- Third person
- Slow
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- Medium
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- Bookworm/scholar
- Black MC
- Mysterious
- Sharp
- Outcast/loner
- Black love interest (LI)
- Atmospheric
- Survivor
- Bisexual MC
- Gothic
- Immersive
- Bisexual love interest (LI)
- Suspenseful
- Academic
- MC 20-30
- Romantic
- Working class
- Tense
- Haunting
- Deadly trials
- Page turner
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Book details
- Length
- 432 pages
- Publisher
- Poisoned Pen Press
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book