NIGHTFALL ACADEMY: THE FORBIDDEN MARK
Her disguise is a lie. His obsession is a curse. And the dead girl between them holds a secret that will burn their world to ash.
Lia Black arrives at the elite Nightfall Academy looking like a mouse: frumpy clothes, bad glasses, and a scholarship student’s meek smile. Her real mission is vengeance. Three years ago, her radiant, powerful sister Elena died here in a mysterious “accident.” Lia’s plan is simple: find the killer, destroy them, and vanish. But on the first day, drenched in rain, her cheap blazer clings to a body that betrays her—a body of lethal curves and hidden strength. And Kane Wolfe sees it.
Kane is the prince of this gilded hell. Heir to the savage Wolfblood dynasty, Student Council King, and bound by a poisonous political engagement to Elara, the vicious Vampyre heiress who rules the school’s social scene. He’s arrogant, brutal, and bored—until the “mouse” looks at him with eyes that scream a challenge. He corners her, sniffs out her lies, and uncovers her other life: at night, she’s “The Wraith,” an anonymous, undefeated fighter in the city’s supernatural underground rings.
He makes her a filthy deal: become his fake mistress in public. He’ll give her the protection and access she needs to investigate. She’ll give him the scandalous leverage to break his engagement. It’s hate at first touch, a searing, angry chemistry that explodes at the Blood Moon Ball when he kisses her to make the lie real—and forgets it’s supposed to be a lie.
But every forbidden touch unravels another thread of the past. Their investigation leads to a gutting truth: Kane and Elena had a secret, summer-long affair. And the final, devastating secret Elena took to her grave? She was pregnant with Kane’s child when she died.
Betrayed and shattered, Lia’s grief erupts. Her carefully constructed disguise shatters, unleashing her true, terrifying heritage: she is the last living heir of the Shadowkin, a line of assassins thought extinct. Her meekness burns away, revealing a beauty so fierce it’s a weapon and a power that makes the ancient houses tremble.
Now, the mouse is a queen. The prince is a haunted man. And the fiancee he scorned is a woman scorned, armed with dark magic and a lethal truth. As the academy descends into a war of bloodlines and brutal magic, Lia must choose: use her new power to burn Kane’s world down for his betrayal, or unite with him to face the real killer—who is closer than either of them ever dreamed.
Welcome to Nightfall Academy. Where love is a battlefield, revenge is a masterpiece, and the most dangerous creature in the room is the one you never saw coming.
