Dark Academia Romance (Contemporary New Adult, Open Door, Explicit) · Quill and Bone, Book 2
Two Names and the Hour
The rule is that she cannot open a single box alone. Both names and the hour go in the minute book. Every night, for six weeks.
Verena Keefe audits institutions whose own records have stopped being believable. Quill and Bone — the society that keeps two hundred years of an old New England college's private papers — has been forced to hire her against itself, and it gives her the strong room, the authority to open anything, and no standing in the house at all. It also gives her an escort: Emlen Sayles, whose family name is on more of the holdings than anyone's, appointed because the house is confident he will obstruct her.
Then her count runs into nine accession numbers from 1911 with no bodies behind them, and the only papers that can account for them are sealed inside the Sayles family deposit. He can close it to her with one signature. He signs it open instead — and stays.
A dark academia romance novella: cold rooms, gloves, ritual, explicit heat, and a woman who finishes the job properly even when it costs her the retainer, the goodwill and the man. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Penelope Douglas.
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New Adult & College RomanceContemporaryErotica
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