Set against an Eastern European backdrop, A Magus in Bucharest follows a young woman’s superb descent into obsession. ​After meeting an enigmatic older man, she becomes convinced their bond is fated. What begins as a platonic affair turns into a psychoanalytic maze, as she interprets his cryptic missives through literature, myths, and the occult—spiraling ever deeper into the theater of her own mind.

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But when her estranged Aunt Dolly arrives—a ruined cabaret dancer—the family’s past erupts into the present. Between her erotic obsession and the secrets of her dead grandmother, Helen’s delirium becomes inseparable from the ghosts of the women who shaped her.

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At once hilarious and devastating, A Magus in Bucharest is a novel about seduction, madness, grief, generational trauma, and the redeeming power of introspection—the self’s final revolt.

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