The Secrets of Hollowbrooke Academy: Cursed Bloodlines (A Dark Academia Romance)
READING AGE 12+
Two bloodlines. One bond that was never supposed to exist. Reed Ashford has spent his whole life becoming exactly what his father needs him to be: precise, disciplined, the perfect Alpha heir. Then a hunt goes sideways, a stranger's scent hits him like a lit match, and everything he was raised to want stops mattering. Ocean Valentine came to Hollowbrooke already promised to someone else. She knows what it means when the bond ignites for an Ashford. She knows exactly how this story is supposed to end for people like them. She falls anyway. Around them, a school full of people they trust is quietly coming apart. A best friend who feels forgotten. A boy who sees everything and says nothing. A girl clawing her way toward power she was never supposed to have. And one classmate, endlessly warm, endlessly patient, who isn't chasing revenge or power at all. He just wants to know what happens when you take a perfect life apart, one small cruelty at a time. Hollowbrooke has buried bonds like this before. Generations of them. Every family has learned how to make one disappear. This time, they're going to find out exactly what that costs. A sprawling, slow-burn shifter saga about love and loyalty.
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Professor Harrow's voice rattled through the classroom like dry leaves.
"Valentine and Ashford. You'll analyze the balcony scene."
Reed's pen stopped mid stroke. The bond snapped tight, a wire pulled to its breaking point. He smelled Ocean before he saw her. The scent was clean and sharp, a cold mountain air that made the wolf in ……
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