Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content, and violent scenes that some readers may find disturbing.
After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.
Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadon University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores.
And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.
Lalisa Manoban, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. She's also my devastatingly gorgeous professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, her dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways she'd devour me if given the chance, and her stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.
I crave her authority.
She aches for redemption.
Together, we're toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.
For the dead have much to teach, and it's only a matter of time before Dracadon's most depraved secret is resurrected.