VELVET AND VENOM//DAERIN

Danielle Marsh has always been good-the kind of girl who bakes cookies for her friends, kisses her boyfriend at the doorstep, and believes in love like it's something pure and untouchable. Her life is picture-perfect, safe, wrapped in the warmth of routine.

Until she moves into a dorm with her.

Kang Haerin is everything Danielle isn't. Dark, untamed, and so intoxicatingly forbidden it's suffocating. She reeks of cigarettes and bad decisions, wears her bruises like trophies, and moves through life like nothing can touch her. She barely acknowledges Danielle's existence-until one night, when she finally does.

One whisper. One touch. One bite against her ear.

"I could taint you."

Danielle should walk away. She has a boyfriend. She has a life. But Haerin is a drug, a slow-burning addiction that leaves her breathless and aching for more. Lust seeps through the cracks of her innocence, temptation coils around her like smoke, and soon, the lines between wrong and right begin to blur.

Because the thing about falling into Haerin's world?

There's no way out without losing yourself completely.