Widdershins Academy — series

Creatures & Beings

Tropes & Themes

How it starts

VALEN: Three centuries teach you discipline—over hunger, over steel, over desire. I teach history at Widdershins Academy, coach its fencing team, and keep to the shadows where a vampire belongs. No attachments. No slipups. Then a sharp-tongued stranger pulls me into an alley during one stolen night off campus, and for the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel alive. I never thought I'd see him again—until he pulls off a fencing mask at tryouts and turns out to be Archer Quinn, my newest student. ARCHER: I came to Widdershins to keep my head down—win meets, pass exams, make my family proud. Vampires are dangerous, untrustworthy, off-limits. That was the first lesson the Quinns ever taught me. So I have no business spending one unforgettable night with a stranger in the mountains… and even less business discovering he's Professor Crowe—the centuries-old vampire now grading my work and running my fencing team. Nightbound is a rich, high-heat dark academy romance—a forbidden professor-and-student affair, a vampire-and-witch divide, and an age-gap bond that defies every rule. Perfect for readers who want sharp banter, stolen midnight lessons, and a love that chooses itself even when no one else will.