For readers drawn to the Dark Academia of The Secret History, the Gothic mystery of The Historian, and the psychological darkness of Edgar Allan Poe, The Professor of Eventide is a slow-burning literary mystery about obsession, immortality, and the dangerous persistence of the past.
Professor Jonathan Ferrars has spent a very long time keeping his secrets. When Jonathan arrives at Eventide College, he hopes to disappear into the rituals of academic life. But Jonathan has lived long enough to know that the past is never truly buried. It waits in old books, forgotten stories, and the memories of people who are supposed to be dead and gone.
Then, during the autumn term, three of his students are murdered in a manner that feels less like a crime than a ritual. As the police close in, Jonathan begins to recognize a pattern in the deaths-a meticulously constructed design that reaches into the history of Eventide College and places him at its center. But the deeper he ventures into the mystery, the more dangerous it becomes for a man who has spent a lifetime concealing the truth about himself.
Jonathan knows more about death than anyone around him. He knows what it means to watch generations pass while remaining behind. He knows the burden of memories that should have faded centuries ago. And he knows some secrets become harder to keep with every passing year.
At Eventide, however, the past has begun to awaken.
A haunting Gothic meditation on intellectual obsession, isolation, immortality, and the predatory nature of history, The Professor of Eventide is a literarymystery in the tradition of Poe-where clues cast long shadows, stories conceal other stories, and the dead are never quite as distant as they seem.
