Nocticadia (Deluxe Edition): A Dark Academia Gothic Romance of Forbidden Love

The limited deluxe edition will include gorgeous designed edges, foil, spot gloss, and an inside cover design

From New York Times bestselling author Keri Lake comes a hardcover repackage of her TikTok sensation Nocticadia, 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.

Perfect for fans of Kaylie Smith, Briar Boleyn, and Rina Kent, Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.

Delicious tropes:

Dark academia
Gothic romance
Teacher x student
Forbidden romance
Age gap
Slow burn

Keri Lake writes gothic romance layered in vengeance, obsession and atmospheric worldbuilding. When she's not romanticizing villains or plotting peril, you'll find her wrangling family and dogs, sipping red wine, and fueling her next story with strong coffee and moody music.

GOTHIC ROMANCE:

Master of Salt & Bones

The Isle of Sin & Shadows

Nightshade

Infernium

Nocticadia

Anathema

Eldritch

DYSTOPIAN ROMANCE

Juniper Unraveling

Calico Descending

Kings of Carrion

God of Monsters