The Academy
READING AGE 18+
Nyssa Knox has always lived in the quiet, cold spaces between "normal" and "wrong." To her distant father, she was a broken child; to herself, she is a girl plagued by voices only she can hear and a power that feels less like a gift and more like a predator waiting to be fed.When she is unceremoniously dropped at the iron gates of Blackwood Academy—a prestigious, modern-day haven for the supernatural elite—Nyssa expects to finally find her place among the witches, werewolves, and shifters. Instead, she finds a shark tank. Even in a school for the extraordinary, Nyssa is an anomaly, a girl whose very presence feels like a funeral dirge in a room full of life.As the clock ticks down to her eighteenth birthday, the school's high-stakes social hierarchy—led by the predatory Dhampir Quinn, the legacy witch Angelique, and the lethal Alpha Cole—threatens to crush her. But Nyssa is more than just an outcast. Between the visceral, blood-soaked rivalries of the student body and the dark, clinical secrets held by the Academy’s faculty, Nyssa must navigate a world of forbidden desire and sudden, violent power.She came to Blackwood to learn how to fit in. She might just stay to watch it burn.
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The heavy, oppressive silence of the afternoon was a physical weight as Nyssa crossed the main courtyard. The vision from the lower levels still throbbed behind her eyes, a rhythmic pulsing that synchronized with the dull ache in her tear ducts. She needed the library. She needed the Restricted Section. She needed to understand why a door in the……
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