A dark atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead
teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness I promised myself
two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she
abandoned me. Four years later I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University one of
the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast
of Maine it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries
before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless
ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity. Devryck Bramwell known on campus as Doctor
Death is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He's also my devastatingly
handsome professor who seems to loathe tenacious first-years like me. Except his dark and
enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he'd devour me if given the chance and his stolen kisses
burn my lips with forbidden jealousy. I crave his authority. He aches for redemption. Together
we're toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of
our pasts. For the dead have much to teach and it's only a matter of time before Dracadia's
most depraved secret is resurrected.
