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"The elite do not graduate from Blackwood University. They survive it."
For scholarship student Ophelia Vale, Blackwood was supposed to be her escape from a life of obscurity. A sanctuary of leather-bound books, ancient architecture, and intellectual triumph. But when she witnesses her mentor plummeting from the campus clock tower, the illusion shatters. In his dying breath, he leaves behind a warning-and a target on her back.
Enter the Blackwood Society: an ancient, hidden enclave of wealth, blood, and devastating secrets.
To find the truth, Ophelia must play a dangerous game of academic wits with Elias Mortem, the Society's cold, brilliant crown prince. He is everything she despises-privileged, ruthless, and terrifyingly perceptive. Elias wants to silence her. Ophelia wants to expose him. But as their rivalry spirals into a toxic, suffocating obsession, the line between hatred and desire dissolves in the shadows of the library stacks.
When Ophelia uncovers a centuries-old ritual that demands a sacrifice from every generation, she realizes her brilliant mind didn't earn her a scholarship...
It earned her an execution.
A dark academia romance filled with toxic slow burns, psychological mind games, and secrets worth dying for.