{"product_id":"nocticadia-standard-edition","title":"Nocticadia: Standard Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom USA Today bestselling author Keri Lake comes a hardcover repackage of her TikTok sensation Nocticadia, a dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMortui vivos docent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dead teach the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He's also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he'd devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI crave his authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe aches for redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, we're toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the dead have much to teach, and it's only a matter of time before Dracadia's most depraved secret is resurrected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of Kaylie Smith, Briar Boleyn, and Rina Kent, Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelicious tropes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e * Dark academia\u003cbr\u003e * Gothic romance\u003cbr\u003e * Teacher x student\u003cbr\u003e * Forbidden romance\u003cbr\u003e * Age gap\u003cbr\u003e * Slow burn\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bright Side Books \u0026 Wine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45236315586613,"sku":"9781464275456","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/7374\/3669\/files\/9781464275456.jpg?v=1779227374","url":"https:\/\/brightsidebooksandwine.com\/products\/nocticadia-standard-edition","provider":"Bright Side Books \u0026 Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}