Nocticadia

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>A dark atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Mortui vivos docent.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The dead teach the living.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I crave his authority.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>He aches for redemption.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Together we're toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>For the dead have much to teach and it's only a matter of time before Dracadia's most depraved secret is resurrected.</span></p>