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 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 targeting her, her world is on the verge of falling apart. Her journals—raw and filled with forbidden fantasies—risk undoing everything she’s worked for, and the fire she’s contained for years threatens to burn it all to the ground. Lantz Beiler, devout and quietly out of place among the elite, meets Ida and awakens parts of him he never knew existed. Their fragile connection—where passion and vulnerability entwine—unlocks something hidden within both of them. But Yitzhak’s manipulation of their childhood friendship, twisted by envy and obsession, is ready to ignite at any spark. Yitzhak Schecter watches from the shadows with cold, menacing hunger, seeing Ida not as a lover, but as 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.