Nocticadia
Keri Lake
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Explicit open door [?]
· 486 ratings · 682 pages · Published: 20 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 61
- college 59
- forbidden love 54
- dark romance 53
- age gap 50
- grumpy/cold hero 49
- m-f romance 48
- poor heroine 44
- rich hero 43
- possessive hero 40
- mystery 39
- slow burn 36
- working class heroine 36
- secret relationship 35
- alpha male 34
- suspense 33
- contemporary 33
- vengeance 31
- tortured hero 30
- class difference 30
- new adult 27
- competent heroine 26
- independent heroine 24
- tortured heroine 23
- nerdy hero 22
- angst 21
- grumpy & sunshine 21
- small town 20
- paranormal 19
- forced proximity 18
- sweet/gentle heroine 16
- praise kink 16
- disabilities & scars 16
- take-charge heroine 13
- exhibitionism 12
- caretaking 10
- height difference 9
- boss & employee 8
- political/court intrigue 4
- bdsm 2
- insta-love 2
- early 20s fmc 2
- fantasy 1
- enemies to lovers 1
- science fiction 1
- horror 1
- magic 1
- childfree 1
- hurt/comfort 1
- urban fantasy 1
- betrayal 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 40
- past abuse 33
- mental trauma 31
- abuse 26
- third party abuse 21
- third party sexual assault 21
- graphic violence 21
- past child abuse 20
- torture of side characters 20
- past child neglect 18
- mental illness 16
- slut shaming 16
- self harm 1
- suicide / ideation 1
- geography
- north america 21
- maine 19
- usa 16
- Format
- audiobook
- dual pov 48
- first person pov 23
- male pov 12
- standalone 3
