The Monster Who Loved Me

Cat Fellowes didn't believe in monsters.

Past tense.

When a series of bad decisions-and one very bad night-lands her inside the gates of Vespera Nocits Academy, she expects the worst. What she gets is somehow worse than that: a school full of students who don't breathe right, a headmaster who drinks blood at breakfast like it's room-temperature coffee, and a seat at the very bottom of a very old food chain.

Aldric Verlaine runs Vespera Noctis the way predators run everything-with patience, precision, and the quiet confidence of something that has never once been the prey.
He isn't interested in Cat.

Except that he is. And he's very good at pretending otherwise.

Cat has one rule: survive long enough to get out.

The problem is, the longer she stays, the less certain she is that leaving is what she actually wants.

Some places are designed to keep you.
Some people are designed to make you grateful for the cage.