Nocticadia
Keri Lake
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Explicit open door [?]
· 273 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 46
- college 43
- forbidden love 39
- dark romance 36
- grumpy/cold hero 35
- age gap 34
- m-f romance 32
- poor heroine 30
- rich hero 29
- possessive hero 26
- slow burn 25
- mystery 24
- contemporary 23
- alpha male 23
- suspense 22
- working class heroine 22
- secret relationship 22
- vengeance 19
- tortured hero 19
- class difference 19
- competent heroine 17
- new adult 16
- nerdy hero 14
- independent heroine 14
- angst 12
- grumpy & sunshine 12
- tortured heroine 12
- small town 11
- forced proximity 10
- sweet/gentle heroine 10
- paranormal 9
- praise kink 7
- disabilities & scars 7
- caretaking 5
- take-charge heroine 5
- height difference 3
- boss & employee 3
- science fiction 1
- bdsm 1
- political/court intrigue 1
- exhibitionism 1
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- content warnings
- death / grief 25
- past abuse 22
- mental trauma 18
- abuse 15
- third party abuse 11
- past child abuse 11
- third party sexual assault 10
- graphic violence 10
- torture of side characters 10
- past child neglect 9
- mental illness 5
- slut shaming 4
- geography
- north america 11
- maine 10
- usa 9
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 37
- first person pov 14
- male pov 6
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