Lysandra:
My soul bond is dying, and my bondmate doesn't care.
The collar at my throat has gone gray. My magic is unraveling. Professor Ravish acts like I don't exist.
So I'm starving myself, pretending everything is fine, and throwing myself into circus preparation like it will save me.
Then a grad student with dark eyes and an Italian accent catches me mid-disaster in the library. He sees my dying collar and doesn't flinch. Just offers his hand like an apocalypse is a minor inconvenience.
He keeps appearing. It's infuriating, how he sees me more clearly than my own bondmate ever did.
Two days until the circus performance that will determine my future.
I don't know what's worse, watching my entire life unravel, or that this stranger treats bond rot like a headache.
Astrid:
I can't stop thinking about Professor Ravish.
A week of trying. A week of failing.
You can't just stop wanting someone. Especially when your perfect, patient boyfriend, who deserves better, is watching you fail.
Then a mysterious invitation arrives for me, to meet in the abandoned Obsidian Tower.
Cricket says don't go. Cruz too.
I go anyway.
Now I'm trapped with the one man I'm supposed to be forgetting. Eroxin has locked us in. Seven days to escape. Seven days of Ravish looking at me like I'm a problem that needs solving.
This is either going to fix everything or destroy me completely.
Book 5 of the Academy of Carnal Arcana, where forced proximity breeds dangerous truths, polyamorous bonds demand impossible choices, and even an incubus can’t resist being devoured in return.
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