Second Soul

by Xan van Rooyen

A cyberpunk retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray set in a futuristic city, in which an orphaned non-binary teen must graduate valedictorian from an elite academy to receive an inheritance from estranged family, but their plan to tear down the upper-echelons of society from the inside will only work if they aren’t seduced by the very world they swore to destroy.

Genres: Dark Academia

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2026

About the author

I'm an autistic non-binary author with a penchant for the dark and strange. I primarily write SFF but enjoy literary writing as well. (Pronouns: they/them)

When not writing, I teach music at an international school, climb, eat anything involving peanut butter, and serve the whims of my shiba inu.