Y/N is admitted to Blackthorne Institute, a strict private mental health facility where routine and control shape every part of life. Inside, she meets Prentice Rafferty and Leland Vesper—two patients who are just as complicated and unstable as she is. As relationships form and boundaries blur, Blackthorne becomes less about recovery and more about survival, connection, and control. In a place designed to contain chaos, attachment quickly becomes the most dangerous part.
Y/N never expected her life to end up in a care home, let alone to clash with someone like Asher Cole the moment she arrived. Forced into sharing space with strangers while trying to keep her walls up, she quickly finds that avoiding people might be harder than she thought. Especially when the one person she can’t stand starts becoming the only one who understands her.
You never imagined your life could be bought and sold—until someone close to you owes a debt they can’t pay. Now, four dangerous men—each with their own power, presence, and secrets—have come for you. You’re meant to be nothing more than a solution, a payment, but your defiance doesn’t go unnoticed. In a world of control, loyalty, and danger, surviving them may be harder than you ever expected—and you may find the lines between fear and fascination starting to blur.
In a world where humans shift into bird-like Unkindness forms, Malyr—the Prince of Darkness—lives with an unexplained “endless ache” tied to a fated bond he cannot understand or control. Across a castle where shifting is normal, he unknowingly crosses paths with Y/N, a raven, both bound by an Anoe connection already pulling them toward each other.
Adrian Mercer has always kept his life simple: his career, his books, and his carefully controlled routine. As one of the university’s most respected English Literature professors, he never expected anyone to challenge him quite like Y/N does. What begins as arguments and tension slowly turns into something neither of them can ignore. Between forbidden feelings, jealousy, and the boundaries they shouldn’t cross, Adrian must decide whether some connections are worth risking everything for.
Blackthorne Academy is an isolated elite boarding school where students are shaped through strict control, constant evaluation, and hidden experiments disguised as education. You arrive on a mysterious scholarship and quickly realise the academy monitors everything, where even trust can be dangerous. Cassian Mercer, the school’s most feared and highest-ranked student, becomes an unexpected source of protection as something in him begins to shift. Behind the system, Dr. Evelyn Hart quietly tries to support students from within, offering fragile help in a place designed to break them.
After a week of basic training, YN has already earned a reputation for challenging Sergeant Callum Hayes’ patience. While the rest of the recruits fear his strict discipline and impossible standards, she refuses to be intimidated. What begins as constant banter and mutual frustration slowly turns into respect—and eventually, something neither of them expected.
