A Golden Fury Samantha Cohoe
Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the legendary Philosopher\u2019s Stone\u2015whose properties include immortality and can turn any metal into gold\u2015but just when the promise of the Stone\u2019s riches is in their grasp, Thea\u2019s mother destroys the Stone in a sudden fit of violent madness.
While combing through her mother\u2019s notes, Thea learns that there\u2019s a curse on the Stone that causes anyone who tries to make it to lose their sanity. With the threat of a revolution looming, Thea is sent to live with the father who doesn\u2019t know she exists.
But there are alchemists after the Stone who don\u2019t believe Thea\u2019s warning about the curse\u2015instead, they\u2019ll stop at nothing to steal Thea\u2019s knowledge of how to create the Stone. 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.