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Three professors. One dangerously unpredictable student. And an obsession none of them expected. At Blackthorne University, Alaric Veyr, Severin Draegor, and Lucien Morcant are known for being brilliant, intimidating, and far too fascinated by the darker sides of human nature. Then they meet Nikolai Volkov, a 22-year-old student who doesn't fear them. Nikolai is intelligent, unreadable, and disturbingly good at seeing through people. Instead of avoiding the three professors, he becomes fascinated by the secrets hiding behind their perfect façades. What begins as curiosity soon becomes an intense psychological fixation. But Nikolai has secrets of his own. The professors thought they had found a student they could study. They were wrong. They may have finally found someone capable of studying them.