Ambrosia

Why it is on our radar

Kwan turns a disguise-and-infiltration premise into an adult dark-academia mystery, giving fantasy readers an entry organized around scientific power and institutional exclusion.

About the book

Li finds evidence that her husband's apparent suicide was an alchemical murder. Shut out of the university where he worked because women cannot study its higher sciences, she adopts a male identity and enters the institution herself. The investigation reveals secrets within both the faculty and her marriage.