Nightbound

A witch who knows the rules. A vampire who's lived too long to care. A forbidden spark that refuses to die… VALEN Three centuries teach you discipline—over hunger, over steel, over desire. I teach history at Widdershins Academy, coach its fencing team, and keep to the shadows where a vampire belongs. No attachments. No slipups. Then a sharp-tongued stranger pulls me into an alley during one stolen night off campus, and for the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel alive. I never thought I'd see him again—until he pulls off a fencing mask at tryouts and turns out to be Archer Quinn, my newest student. It would be easy to keep my distance if his laughter didn't feel like a long-lost sunrise, if feeding from him didn't steady something I thought had died centuries ago. But the academy forbids a professor from touching a student, and his family forbids him from so much as speaking to the undead. I've broken a lot of rules in my life. I don't want to break him. ARCHER I came to Widdershins to keep my head down—win meets, pass exams, make my family proud. Vampires are dangerous, untrustworthy, off-limits. That was the first lesson the Quinns ever taught me. So I have no business spending one unforgettable night with a stranger in the mountains… and even less business discovering he's Professor Crowe—the centuries-old vampire now grading my work and running my fencing team. He's wrong for me in every way—older, immortal, the enemy by tradition. Yet the more he feeds on what burns between us, the more my magic seems to sing to his, like it's been waiting all along. If I choose him, I gamble my family name, my inheritance, my whole future. If I don't… I'll spend the rest of my life pretending I never felt destiny bite down. Nightbound is a rich, high-heat dark academy romance—a forbidden professor-and-student affair, a vampire-and-witch divide, and an age-gap bond that defies every rule.