I thought I understood what Saint Thorne University could take from me.
I was wrong.
Nightbound tried to bind me with old language, old power, and a debt written long before I was born. They thought a clause tied to my family name would be enough to place me where they wanted me—under a patron house, under control, under the same machinery that has been feeding on girls like me for years while calling itself tradition.
They forgot I can read.
Now the society is splitting open. The elders want me contained. Their houses want me claimed. Their secrets are starting to leak into the light, and every page I uncover makes one thing clearer: Saint Thorne was never built on honor. It was built on favors, fear, and the quiet ruin of people with less power than the men writing the rules.
Lucian Harrow was supposed to be part of that structure.
He was supposed to inherit it.
Instead, he’s tearing it apart with me.
The more Nightbound closes in, the more dangerous he becomes—publicly choosing me, burning through his family’s authority, and standing at my side while the whole system tries to drag me back into place. He says he’ll let the old world fall before he lets them own me.
I believe him.
That should probably frighten me more than it does.
Because this isn’t a story about rescue. It’s about war. About bloodlines, buried records, and power ugly enough to wear good manners. About the difference between being claimed and being chosen. And about what happens when a girl they meant to manage learns exactly how to bring the whole beautiful structure down.
Season of Wrath is a steamy dark college romance with a secret society, possessive antihero, enemies-to-lovers tension, obsessive chemistry, forced proximity, family secrets, political power games, and adult themes. A content note is included in the front matter.
Genre: New Adult Romance
I was wrong.
Nightbound tried to bind me with old language, old power, and a debt written long before I was born. They thought a clause tied to my family name would be enough to place me where they wanted me—under a patron house, under control, under the same machinery that has been feeding on girls like me for years while calling itself tradition.
They forgot I can read.
Now the society is splitting open. The elders want me contained. Their houses want me claimed. Their secrets are starting to leak into the light, and every page I uncover makes one thing clearer: Saint Thorne was never built on honor. It was built on favors, fear, and the quiet ruin of people with less power than the men writing the rules.
Lucian Harrow was supposed to be part of that structure.
He was supposed to inherit it.
Instead, he’s tearing it apart with me.
The more Nightbound closes in, the more dangerous he becomes—publicly choosing me, burning through his family’s authority, and standing at my side while the whole system tries to drag me back into place. He says he’ll let the old world fall before he lets them own me.
I believe him.
That should probably frighten me more than it does.
Because this isn’t a story about rescue. It’s about war. About bloodlines, buried records, and power ugly enough to wear good manners. About the difference between being claimed and being chosen. And about what happens when a girl they meant to manage learns exactly how to bring the whole beautiful structure down.
Season of Wrath is a steamy dark college romance with a secret society, possessive antihero, enemies-to-lovers tension, obsessive chemistry, forced proximity, family secrets, political power games, and adult themes. A content note is included in the front matter.
Genre: New Adult Romance
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