Hollow (A Gothic Shade of Romance 1)

From the New York Times bestselling author of River of Shadows and A Ship of Bones and Teeth comes a smutty spooky dark academia gothic romance retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,where Kat Van Tassel doesn’t have to choose between Brom Bones and Ichabod Craneand there are worse things haunting them than the Headless Horseman. Ever since she was a childKat Van Tassel knew that her parents had arranged for her to marry her best friendBrom Boneswhen she became of age. That was until Brom mysteriously vanished from the secretive village of Sleepy Hollow when he was just a teenager. Nowat nineteenKat is fulfilling the tradition of attending Sleepy Hollow Institutea shadowy and prestigious school that is run by her powerful family. There she starts to fall for her new teacherthe enigmaticsmartand much older Ichabod Cranewhose fascination with dark magic and the occult brings out a new side of Kat-in more ways than one. Until Brom Bones suddenly appears in her class. Her childhood friend doesn’t remember what happened to him in the four years that he’s been goneall he knows is that he’s back in Sleepy Hollow for good. The only problem ishe’s not the same man that Kat knew. Cocky and brash as a youththis Brom is violent and prone to bouts of madness. It doesn’t help that his reappearance coincides with gruesome decapitations that are plaguing the townwith rumors swirling about a vengeful ghost called The Headless Horseman. Determined to get to the bottom of the murders and Brom’s volatilityCrane takes Brom under his wing to study himand they begin to grow closejust as they do with Kat. But the more that the threesome submits to their sexual desires on the path to the truththe more dangerous Sleepy Hollow becomes. The Headless Horseman might claim them as his next victims…if something even more terrifying doesn’t get to them first.