Gothikana (The Verenmore Volumes)

Corvina Clemm has always lived on the fringes, an outcast marked by a life of isolation. When an unexpected invitation arrives from the University of Verenmore, she views it as a destined path toward belonging. She arrives at the secluded, mountaintop castle only to discover a decaying gothic fortress steeped in century-old secrets and a grim history of disappearances that occur with chilling regularity every five years.

Within these shadowed halls, she encounters Vad Deverell, an enigmatic professor and a man who is as much a part of the castle’s mystery as its crumbling stone walls. Vad understands the lethal nature of the university, and he recognizes immediately that Corvina represents a volatile disruption to his carefully guarded existence. Despite the inherent danger, their lives become inextricably tethered as Corvina begins to unearth clues to the castle’s macabre past.

Caught between a lethal mystery and an undeniable, forbidden pull, the two must navigate a landscape of deceit where the boundary between love and destruction blurs. In the heart of Verenmore, they discover that some secrets are meant to stay buried, and some romances are forged in the darkest of places.