A Lesson in Balance started one hot summer with a very general idea: I wanted to try writing a dark academia story. At the time, I didn’t have the whole plot yet. I had the atmosphere first. A prestigious school. Fancy students. Academic expectations. A little mystery. A little danger. The usual dark academia ingredients were there, but the story itself was still loose. My first instinct was to look up philosophy quotes. Which, honestly, feels like a very normal starting poin

Mozart & Mayhem is the first book of 'The Capybara House Quartet', a duology about four Classics-obsessed brothers, who are trying very hard not to live in a sitcom... and failing spectacularly. Mikhail, exhausted Philosophy major and terrifyingly competent eldest, runs the rota with Aristotle in one hand and tea in the other. Riven and Terrence, the literature twins duel over whose story is better, while Halden, youngest and self-appointed court painter/music director, score