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Vesper Voss
Romance for readers who prefer obsession to happliy-ever-afters.
Dark fantasy romanceGothic romanceDark academyReverse Harem
2,502published words across 1 Lantern story
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I write morally grey characters, magic that harms and heals, and romance that feels destined and doomed.
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Stories by Vesper Voss
Dark fantasy academy romance
Blightwood Academy
The Blight kills slowly. My secret would kill me by morning.
One mistake was all it took to put me in chains and ship me to Blightwood Academy—a gothic reformatory on the edge of the dead moors. The guards diagnosed me with the Blight, a terminal magical infection.
But I’m not dying from the Blight.
I’m a Siphon—an extinct, despised creature that devours magic. In this school, being corrupted gets you beaten. Being what I am?
That gets you executed.
So I stay invisible. I keep my head down and do what I'm told.
Until an assassin’s blood-hex detonates, binding my life to the academy’s three most lethal predators: Corvus, Kaelen, and Thorne. The princes of Blightwood.
If they die, I die.
Now, I’m locked in a quarantine suite with three ruined princes who hate that their lives depend on a gutter rat.
They weren't supposed to want the gutter rat. I sure as hell wasn't supposed to want all three of them.
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