Nocticadia
Keri Lake
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Explicit open door [?]
· 190 ratings · 682 pages · Published: 25 Apr 2023
Mortui vivos docent.
The dead teach the living.
After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.
Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it’s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island’s white sandy shores.
And restless ghosts aren’t even its most daunting peculiarity.
Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.
I crave his authority.
He aches for redemption.
Together, we’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.
For the dead have much to teach, and it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected.
Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.
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- teacher/coach hero 36
- college 34
- forbidden love 32
- dual pov 30
- dark romance 28
- age gap 28
- grumpy/cold hero 26
- m-f romance 26
- rich hero 25
- poor heroine 22
- contemporary 21
- slow burn 20
- mystery 19
- alpha male 19
- possessive hero 19
- suspense 18
- working class heroine 18
- secret relationship 18
- class difference 17
- vengeance 15
- tortured hero 15
- new adult 14
- competent heroine 13
- nerdy hero 12
- first person pov 12
- independent heroine 12
- grumpy & sunshine 11
- angst 10
- paranormal 9
- tortured heroine 9
- forced proximity 8
- sweet/gentle heroine 8
- small town 7
- praise kink 7
- disabilities & scars 5
- caretaking 4
- male pov 4
- take-charge heroine 4
- height difference 2
- boss & employee 2
- science fiction 1
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- death / grief 21
- past abuse 18
- mental trauma 14
- abuse 12
- third party abuse 8
- graphic violence 8
- past child abuse 8
- torture of side characters 8
- past child neglect 7
- third party sexual assault 6
- mental illness 3
- slut shaming 3
- geography
- north america 8
- maine 8
- usa 7
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