Nocticadia

Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After 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. Four years later I received 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. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity. Devryck 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 an