Romance - Dark Academia - Standalone Shifter But when a low-level mortal

But when a low-level mortal scavenger accidentally absorbs a terrifying

✨Tropes: He Falls Harder

Ritualized Coping Mechanisms

and reclaim her territory

the tone is sultry yet sinister

Romance - Dark Academia - Standalone Shifter But when a low-level mortalBook Title Lessons in Cruelty Description Vera Lexington is a brilliant, exhausted PhD candidate clinging to the jagged edge of her academic career at the fiercely elite King's College. Her survival depends on flawless, invisible propriety. Darius Mercer is a breathtakingly arrogant, impossibly wealthy twenty one year old undergraduate who operates with terrifying, lawless impunity. He needs her genius to cheat his way into the university's most