From USA Today bestselling author Keri Lake comes a hardcover repackage of her TikTok sensation Nocticadia,a darkatmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illnessI promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years laterI receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia Universityone of the oldestmost prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maineit’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 Bramwellknown on campus as Doctor Deathis a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He’s also my devastatingly handsome professorwho seems to loathe tenacious first-yearslike me. Excepthis dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he’d devour me if given the chanceand his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy. I crave his authority. He aches for redemption. Togetherwe’re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts. For the dead have much to teachand it’s only a matter of time before Dracadia’s most depraved secret is resurrected. Nocticadia is a standalone dark academia gothic romance.