egoisticxsoul
Two scholars. One manuscript. No room for surrender.
At the storm-lashed cliffs of Blackthorn College, the Marlowe Fellowship promises security, prestige-and escape. For Elias Moreau, it means permanence in a world that never made room for him. For Ophelia Ashcroft, it is inevitability.
When both are named finalists, they are assigned a single project: reconstruct the lost work of a professor who disappeared more than a century ago after claiming that intellectual rivals could erode one another's very identities.
Collaboration is mandatory. Victory is singular.
As late nights in the abbey archives turn into something more intimate-and more adversarial-Elias and Ophelia begin to suspect that Vane's theory was not academic speculation, but warning.
Because the closer they draw to each other, the harder it becomes to tell where one mind ends... and the other begins.