Keyflame

Lilah’s father taught her to be afraid of the world, but now he's sending her off to university in a strange town far from home. Nestled in the heart of South Africa's Eastern Cape, Grahamstown is a place built on secrets and some of those secrets are deeper and older than Lilah can imagine. While she tries to adjust to her new freedom and navigate her first year of study, her father's own secrets land him in legal trouble and she's abruptly left stranded and alone. Of all people to step in and help, it's her arrogant classmate, Kalin. He's argumentative, brooding and annoyingly mysterious. But he's also surprisingly kind and when they’re ensconced in his study, surrounded by old books and strange talismans, it's easy to forget how she's been warned he's bad news. The longer she stays in Grahamstown, and with Kalin, the more her reality seems to unravel. Is the town haunted? Are leylines real? Why is she suddenly having vivid dreams of a fantasy world she thought she’d made up? What was her father hiding about her childhood? Who is Kalin really, and what will loving him cost her?