Shattered & Returned

She’s died a hundred times. He’s failed to save her every one.

BLOOM doesn’t know why her dreams drip with blood. Why the dead whisper her name. Or Nero Ravencrux—Forsaken Academy’s lethally beautiful, morally black heart—watches her like she’s both his salvation and his ruin.
She only knows:
Students who break the rules vanish.
Every redhead who looked like her is now a corpse.
She has a month until her twentieth birthday.

NERO is a god in a professor’s skin. For two thousand years, he’s watched Persephone–his Persephone–be reborn only to be slaughtered by the gods who hunt her for sport. This time, he built Forsaken Academy as a gilded cage to keep her alive. But Bloom is different. Fragile. Furious. And unraveling his lies as she digs into the murders of women with her face…women who are all her.

The Fates’ curse is clear: Remember, or this death will be her last.

For listeners who love these tropes:

• Enemies-to-lovers smut
• Dark academia & gothic romance
• Persephone and Hades retelling
• Forbidden teacher/student relationship
• Reincarnation & curse
• Second chance
• Fated mates
• Forced proximity
• Who hurt you?
• Murder mystery
• Villain does better
• He’ll ruin you
• Panty-melting obsession

Warning: This dark academia romance reimagines the Hades and Persephone myth with forbidden lust, deadly secrets, and an epic love that defies fate and curse. The duet contains graphic violence, murders, assault, explicit sex, captivity, and a devastating cliffhanger.
Listener discretion advised.