About the Book: In a crumbling university city overtaken by vegetation, Agathe works behind the scenes for a fraudulent professor whose career depends on her loyalty. When a campus scandal erupts between a controversial student and a rising academic, Agathe is tasked with befriending the student and gathering information. As she becomes entangled in conspiracies, competing versions of the truth, and an increasingly dangerous attraction, her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Blending gothic fiction, psychological suspense, dark academia, and an unconventional love story, The Vivisectors is a fiercely imaginative and unsettling novel about power, deception, desire, identity, and humanity’s contradictions.