Dark Academia Romance (Contemporary New Adult, Open Door, Explicit) · Quill and Bone, Book 1
The Oath of Keeping
Every candidate for two hundred years arrived five minutes late, to look unbothered. Nell Vance came four minutes early.
She has a scholarship, a reading-room job, no lineage at all, and very good hands. When the letter tells her to be at the north door at eleven, she is there at eleven — and Gideon Hale, the house's junior warden, sent to make her stand in the cold and prove she wants it, opens the door on the spot for a reflex he cannot afterwards explain. By morning he is sponsoring the candidacy he has already compromised, and the whole house has decided she is his whim rather than their choice.
So he gives her the hardest proof Ansell has: a sealed family deposit no first-year has ever been trusted with. Long legitimate hours alone in a cold room, in gloves, under a rule that says everything done there goes in the minute book — and one thing that never does. Then Nell counts what nobody has counted in decades, and finds the house has been quietly selling the papers it swore to keep. Including the ones that would ruin the Hales.
A dark academia romance novella — secret societies, institutional power, explicit heat, and a heroine who stops asking to be let in and starts asking what she is being let into. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Penelope Douglas.
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New Adult & College RomanceContemporaryErotica
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