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Shattered & Returned
(2025)(The first book in the Dark God series)
A novel by L Lysandra and Meg Xuemei X
I don’t know why my dreams drip with blood.
Why the dead whisper my name like a prayer.
Or why Nero Ravencrux watches me like I’m both his salvation and his sin.
Girls like me don’t survive Reaper Academy.
Red hair. Dead before twenty.
A curse carved into the bones of the women who wore my face across centuries.
They warned me about Ravencrux—the morally black professor.
They said he would ruin me.
His beauty is a weapon; his hands, cruel artistry.
But when he touches me, it doesn’t feel like destruction.
It feels like coming home.
And they don't know the most dangerous thing in this gothic nightmare
isn’t his obsession—but mine.
Shattered and Returned is the first book in the Reapers Academy: Dark God duet.
For readers who love:
Why the dead whisper my name like a prayer.
Or why Nero Ravencrux watches me like I’m both his salvation and his sin.
Girls like me don’t survive Reaper Academy.
Red hair. Dead before twenty.
A curse carved into the bones of the women who wore my face across centuries.
They warned me about Ravencrux—the morally black professor.
They said he would ruin me.
His beauty is a weapon; his hands, cruel artistry.
But when he touches me, it doesn’t feel like destruction.
It feels like coming home.
And they don't know the most dangerous thing in this gothic nightmare
isn’t his obsession—but mine.
Shattered and Returned is the first book in the Reapers Academy: Dark God duet.
For readers who love:
- Dark academia
Gothic romance
Persephone and Hades retelling
Enemies-to-lovers
Forbidden teacher/student relationship
Ancient curse and Fated mates
Who hurt you and he'll ruin you
Murder mystery
Villain does better
Genre: Romance
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