by Rina Kent
First published 2025
Carson is the perfect law student. He's brilliant, wealthy, and destined to inherit an empire. But beneath his golden exterior burns a desire for chaos and destruction. He keeps these dark impulses hidden until one reckless night of debauchery goes wrong. A criminal catches him in the act, and Carson buries the humiliating encounter with his other secrets. Then Kayden Lockwood walks into his classroom as his new criminal law professor. Carson recognizes him immediately. This is the villain who witnessed his darkest moment. Now Kayden stands at the front of the lecture hall, teaching about the very crimes he commits. Carson can't expose Kayden without revealing his own secret life. Instead, he decides to make his professor pay. He will force Kayden to swallow the same bitter medicine he was given that night. But as these two dangerous men circle each other, both begin to break under the pressure. Carson realizes their deadly game might destroy them both.
Genres: crime, contemporary, adult-fiction, dark-romance, academia, dark-academia
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, secret-life
560 pages · Paperback · Bloom Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, violence