Description
She wished for it. He’s going to make sure she never stops screaming for more.
Professor Aurelian Hale is brilliant, brutal, and merciless—a scholar with a god complex and a reputation for ripping students to shreds with his intellect alone. He doesn’t take advisees. He takes victims.
He also happens to be the high priest of Wyck Hill College’s most secretive and elite society, Ordo Valerius—a shadowy circle marked only by a tattoo of a serpent devouring its own tail, hidden on inner wrists and visible only to those who know where to look.
And yet, for reasons she doesn’t understand, Vesper Stanton has been chosen.
She’s poor, brilliant, desperate—and completely unprepared for Hale’s razor-sharp mind and punishing intensity. Their thesis meetings feel like combat. Her nights are filled with restless dreams, dark fantasies she’s too ashamed to name, and the uncanny sense that someone is always watching her.
Until she makes a wish.
A filthy, deviant, impossible wish.
The kind you’d only whisper to a statue after midnight.
The kind no one should ever hear.
The kind that gets answered.
Because someone does hear her.
Two nights later, he comes out of the shadows and ruins her. Masked, silent, and utterly merciless, he takes her like she begged for it—because she did.
And she can’t wait to do it again.
Now, by day, she’s battling Professor Hale in the ivy-covered library over thesis citations and symbolic violence in folklore.
By night, she’s being hunted, tied, taken—chased through the woods, bent over old stone altars, used until she forgets her name.
But when she sees the mark on his chest—the tattoo all members of Ordo Valerius wear—she starts to wonder…
What if her terrifying professor and her masked, brutal lover aren’t two different men at all?
What if they’re one and the same?
And what if he doesn’t just want her body—he wants her mind, her soul, her everything?
A dark, obsessive, gothic romance with stalking, masked rituals, primal non-con fantasy, secret societies, dangerous desires, and one arrogant, sadistic professor who intends to own her—body, brain, and heart.
One wish. Dark commands. And he is always watching.
Professor Aurelian Hale is brilliant, brutal, and merciless—a scholar with a god complex and a reputation for ripping students to shreds with his intellect alone. He doesn’t take advisees. He takes victims.
He also happens to be the high priest of Wyck Hill College’s most secretive and elite society, Ordo Valerius—a shadowy circle marked only by a tattoo of a serpent devouring its own tail, hidden on inner wrists and visible only to those who know where to look.
And yet, for reasons she doesn’t understand, Vesper Stanton has been chosen.
She’s poor, brilliant, desperate—and completely unprepared for Hale’s razor-sharp mind and punishing intensity. Their thesis meetings feel like combat. Her nights are filled with restless dreams, dark fantasies she’s too ashamed to name, and the uncanny sense that someone is always watching her.
Until she makes a wish.
A filthy, deviant, impossible wish.
The kind you’d only whisper to a statue after midnight.
The kind no one should ever hear.
The kind that gets answered.
Because someone does hear her.
Two nights later, he comes out of the shadows and ruins her. Masked, silent, and utterly merciless, he takes her like she begged for it—because she did.
And she can’t wait to do it again.
Now, by day, she’s battling Professor Hale in the ivy-covered library over thesis citations and symbolic violence in folklore.
By night, she’s being hunted, tied, taken—chased through the woods, bent over old stone altars, used until she forgets her name.
But when she sees the mark on his chest—the tattoo all members of Ordo Valerius wear—she starts to wonder…
What if her terrifying professor and her masked, brutal lover aren’t two different men at all?
What if they’re one and the same?
And what if he doesn’t just want her body—he wants her mind, her soul, her everything?
A dark, obsessive, gothic romance with stalking, masked rituals, primal non-con fantasy, secret societies, dangerous desires, and one arrogant, sadistic professor who intends to own her—body, brain, and heart.
One wish. Dark commands. And he is always watching.
Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
Sep 18, 2026