Nocticadia
Keri Lake
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Explicit open door [?]
· 373 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 53
- college 51
- forbidden love 46
- dark romance 44
- age gap 42
- grumpy/cold hero 42
- m-f romance 40
- poor heroine 37
- rich hero 35
- possessive hero 32
- mystery 30
- slow burn 28
- working class heroine 28
- alpha male 27
- secret relationship 27
- suspense 25
- contemporary 25
- vengeance 23
- tortured hero 23
- class difference 23
- competent heroine 20
- new adult 19
- nerdy hero 18
- independent heroine 18
- angst 15
- grumpy & sunshine 15
- tortured heroine 15
- forced proximity 14
- small town 14
- sweet/gentle heroine 13
- paranormal 12
- praise kink 10
- disabilities & scars 10
- take-charge heroine 8
- caretaking 7
- height difference 6
- boss & employee 5
- exhibitionism 5
- political/court intrigue 2
- insta-love 2
- science fiction 1
- bdsm 1
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- content warnings
- death / grief 31
- past abuse 26
- mental trauma 23
- abuse 19
- third party abuse 15
- third party sexual assault 15
- graphic violence 15
- past child abuse 14
- past child neglect 13
- torture of side characters 13
- mental illness 9
- slut shaming 8
- geography
- north america 15
- maine 14
- usa 12
- Format
- Audiobook
- dual pov 41
- first person pov 18
- male pov 8
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