The Tower and the Tears

Combining the freshness and excitement of new adult romance with a paranormal setting reminiscent of Harry Potter, The Tower and the Tears is the second volume in Cecilia Tan's Magic University series.

Kyle is a college sophomore worrying about the usual things students do, like what he’s going to major in and getting along with his dorm mates, but he attends a most unusual college. He’s a student at Veritas, the hidden magical university inside Harvard. Kyle finds he has a talent for sex magic, and when Ciara, a girl in his sex magic class, has a crush on him and needs a practice partner, he looks like he's in for a very pleasurable semester of study. But can Kyle pass the grueling tests necessary to be accepted into the Esoteric Arts program, including the bisexuality requirement?

When a professor is mysteriously attacked, Kyle finds himself embroiled in a mystery deeper than university department politics. Someone has been stealing magical artifacts and the dean suspects Ciara, sending Kyle on a quest to discover the real culprit. Kyle will learn sizzling sexual technique and unleash powerful magic on his incredible erotic journey, but is the study of sex really the route to true love? Perhaps what Kyle needs to learn about most is himself.

Cecilia Tan lives in the Boston area with her lifelong partner Corwin and three cats. Her short stories have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Nerve, Best American Erotica, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and other publications.

Endorsements

“Simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.” — Susie Bright

Slow Surrender won the RT Reviewers' Choice Award in Erotic Romance and the Maggie Award for Excellence from the Georgia Romance Writers.

She was inducted into the Saints & Sinners Hall of Fame for GLBT writers in 2010.

She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association in 2004.

She won the inaugural Rose & Bay Award for Best Fiction in 2010 for her crowdfunded web fiction serial Daron’s Guitar Chronicles.