Love Them Or Die 1
(2026)(The first book in the This Academy Will Kill You series)
A novel by Marie Mackay
A LitRPG enemies to lovers why choose romance set in a magical academy…
My soul mate wants me dead.Dropped into a deadly magic academy against my will, my chance of survival is exactly 0%.
Pyrrhic Draxe—the prince I’m mated to—wants to be free of our bond, and he'''s paying to sponsor me in this academy so he can witness my demise.
Upon entry, I receive my Codex—a magical overlay showing my magical stats—and the academy, which delights in story-telling tropes, locks in my genre: Romance: Why Choose? leaving my magic weaker the longer I’m alone.
Now with a health stat of 1, a touch-starved penalty, and no home room to sleep in, death lurks around every corner—even by something as stupid as a stubbed toe.
But I can't give up. Pebble—my panda-demon companion—can’t live without me so it’s me and her against this deadly academy.
A deal with Apex, a vicious student bound to a shadow demon, buys me a good night’s sleep in his room, but costs me everything else. He becomes my personal villain, hunting me for revenge—or sport. His roommate, Cipher, is the opposite: a warm fire on a winter night, caring and protective. I shouldn’t let him in, but one night in his arms and I can breathe for the first time.
Against my better judgement, I quickly find myself entangled with both. But it doesn't matter how hard I fall for Cipher: my mate will target anyone who tries to keep me safe.
I can’t watch him get hurt.
But just like the academy wants, I have to find a way to love them, or die—even if that same love might be the thing that gets them killed.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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