The Year of Sin and Smoke

The Year of Sin and Smoke is an erotic dark academia thriller set in the gilded halls of Van Tassel College, where ambition smolders and secrets spark, leaving nothing but ashes behind.

IDA

Ida Agoniste controls her world with chilling precision, hiding her deepest desires behind a carefully crafted identity. With her mother’s death imminent, her father’s political ambitions relentless, and a secret society setting its eyes on her, her carefully constructed world is on the edge of collapse. But her journals—raw and full of forbidden fantasies—threaten to undo everything she’s worked for. The fire she’s spent years containing threatens to burn everything to the ground.

LANTZ

Lantz Beiler is devout and quietly out of place among Van Tassel’s elite. Meeting Ida awakens parts of him he never knew existed. Their bond is delicate, a symphony where passion and vulnerability entwine, each unlocking something hidden within the other. But beneath it all, Yitzhak’s manipulation of their childhood bond—twisted by envy and obsession—is ready to ignite at the first spark.

YITZHAK

Yitzhak Schecter watches from the shadows with cold, menacing hunger. To him, Ida is not a lover to cherish, but a prize to break and possess. His obsession is ruthless. His desire violent. He will stop at nothing to claim her.

In The Year of Sin and Smoke, passion is a weapon, and no one escapes the inferno.