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The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones: A Novel by Lex Croucher

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From New York Times bestselling author Lex Croucher, The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones is an adult fantasy debut praised by John Green, Olivie Blake, and Laura Steven, and pitched for fans of The Magicians, Ninth House, The Atlas Six, Babel, and A Deadly Education.

Behind the gates of Britain’s most prestigious magic school, Briar Jones finds the former best friend they lost, the world they were denied, and the rot hiding beneath all that power.

Briar Jones spent childhood dreaming of Temple School of Thaumaturgy, the elite boarding school rumored to be magical. When their best friend Sebastian Wolfe receives an acceptance letter and Briar does not, the future they imagined together breaks apart.

Seven years later, Briar finally gets inside Temple through a temp job sorting through the school’s forgotten attic junk. What they find is not the glittering dream they once worshipped, but a place built on secrecy, privilege, and corrupted power.

Sebastian is no longer the quiet, sensitive boy Briar loved more than anything. He has become Bastian: beautiful, cruel, feared by the entire school, and tangled in the secrets Temple is desperate to protect.

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones is a dark academia fantasy about class, longing, grief, identity, and the cost of wanting to belong somewhere that was never built for you. It is also a slow-burn queer romance about best friends turned enemies, the ache of lost intimacy, and the dangerous pull of the person who still knows you best.

From New York Times bestselling author Lex Croucher, The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones is an adult fantasy debut praised by John Green, Olivie Blake, and Laura Steven, and pitched for fans of The Magicians, Ninth House, The Atlas Six, Babel, and A Deadly Education.

Behind the gates of Britain’s most prestigious magic school, Briar Jones finds the former best friend they lost, the world they were denied, and the rot hiding beneath all that power.

Briar Jones spent childhood dreaming of Temple School of Thaumaturgy, the elite boarding school rumored to be magical. When their best friend Sebastian Wolfe receives an acceptance letter and Briar does not, the future they imagined together breaks apart.

Seven years later, Briar finally gets inside Temple through a temp job sorting through the school’s forgotten attic junk. What they find is not the glittering dream they once worshipped, but a place built on secrecy, privilege, and corrupted power.

Sebastian is no longer the quiet, sensitive boy Briar loved more than anything. He has become Bastian: beautiful, cruel, feared by the entire school, and tangled in the secrets Temple is desperate to protect.

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones is a dark academia fantasy about class, longing, grief, identity, and the cost of wanting to belong somewhere that was never built for you. It is also a slow-burn queer romance about best friends turned enemies, the ache of lost intimacy, and the dangerous pull of the person who still knows you best.

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