skywriter1127
Raven Blythe was raised to stay silent, obedient, untouched. But after fleeing the cult that taught her shame was holy, she finds herself enrolled at Blackthorn Institute-a sanctuary for survivors, where the past is forbidden and the future is uncertain.
At Blackthorn, Raven is given a bed, a roommate who wears frog pajamas, and a name no longer whispered. Slowly, she starts to bloom-learning what it means to laugh, to eat burgers, to want. Want things she was never allowed to imagine before: freedom, friendship... and him.
Lucian Vale is her literature professor-brilliant, unreadable, and far too attentive. Raven shouldn't notice the way he looks at her. She shouldn't wonder what he's thinking. And she definitely shouldn't want more. But in the quiet corners of his classroom, and in the scribbled notes he leaves behind, something begins to grow-something dangerous. Something undeniable.
But some boundaries are written in ink. And Raven's past has a way of finding her, no matter how far she runs.a