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Dana Schwartz and Dan Frey are teaming up to publish a new dark romantasy novel

The authors will publish The Aracane Arts next year, under the pen name S.D. Coverly

In a new Q&A with PEOPLE, the authors discuss their collaboration, and putting a "new twist" on the dark academia genre

Dark academia, romance and fantasy join forces in a gripping new book.

S.D. Coverly, the pen name for authors Dana Schwartz ( Anatomy: A Love Story ) and Dan Frey ( The Future Is Yours ), will publish their debut joint novel The Arcane Arts , out next year from Del Rey, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Per a synopsis shared with PEOPLE, the novel follows graduate student Ellsbeth Storer, who attends the elite Newlyn University in New England to study the Arcane Arts. When El

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