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Nocticadia
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Nocticadia

Nocticadia
Nocticadia
By:
Keri Lake
  • Spice Scale
  • Number of books

    1 Published

  • KU

    ✅

  • Audiobook

    ✅

  • Series Status

    Complete

  • Interconnected

    N/A

  • Overall Rating

    Coming Soon

A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. 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 Dracadia 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. Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He's also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he'd devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy. I crave his authority. He 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 Dracadia's most depraved secret is resurrected.--

Jamie’s review

Excellent, creepy, spicy, spooky season read that I could NOT put down. I loved the mystery and science and gross parasites involved with this story!

Devryck/Dr Death is everything we want in a morally gray MMC. And Lilia is the smarty pants, scrappy FMC trying to solve the mystery around her mother's death.

Some great twists I didn't see coming. I could have done without the cheesy epilogue but I will allow it because I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the book. THIS IS A MUST READ!

Excellent, creepy, spicy, spooky season read that I could NOT put down. I loved the mystery and science and gross parasites involved with this story!

Devryck/Dr Death is everything we want in a morally gray MMC. And Lilia is the smarty pants, scrappy FMC trying to solve the mystery around her mother's death.

Some great twists I didn't see coming. I could have done without the cheesy epilogue but I will allow it because I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the book. THIS IS A MUST READ!

Erica’s review

Dark, gothic, creepy academia with a taboo HOT professor/student situationship??? Ummmm take all my money. It was great and I tore through this one. I wanted to punch Dr. Death a few times but maybe only to get detention? 🤷‍♀️ This is a great one!

Dark, gothic, creepy academia with a taboo HOT professor/student situationship??? Ummmm take all my money. It was great and I tore through this one. I wanted to punch Dr. Death a few times but maybe only to get detention? 🤷‍♀️ This is a great one!

Books in this series

  • Book 1

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    1

    A Shadow in the Ember
    Nocticadia

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