Bound in Ink and Bone

A Dark Academia Reverse Harem Paranormal Ghost Romance

De: Lena Nightwood

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Sable Morcant came to Gravewater Academy to outrun the words in her blood, not let them write her into a monster’s favorite story.

Most students at this elite dark academia just stress over exams, house rivalries, and avoiding the ghosts in the Necropolis. Sable has a bigger problem. Every fear, every lie, every secret crush appears to her as floating text over people’s heads—and the academy’s most dangerous grimoire has recognized her name.

The Palimpsest of Whispers was built to cage a word-born horror. Now its chains are failing, and its ink wants out. The more Sable studies sigilcraft and omens, the worse the “words under her skin” become—burning Veil Fever, sleepless nights, and a body that feels like parchment desperate to be written on. Every climax threatens to feed the thing trapped in the book.

Her only chance at surviving Gravewater’s haunted halls and lethal library lies in the bonds she forges: Ivar, the ink-stained boy who would burn the world before he lets the school collar her; Sorin, the furious lawmage executed and bound inside the Palimpsest; Mael, the poet-architect who can rewrite cages; Tallis, the feral assassin who stalks the Necropolis and the Drifting Woods; and Coren, the ethics-obsessed professor literally chained to Umbra’s wards. Together they can reroute the power in her bones…or turn her into the perfect conduit for the Murmur’s hunger.

As textstorms tear through the dining hall, classmates fall to possession, and living sentences try to carve Sable open from the inside, faculty reach for the same old solution—collars, isolation, sacrifice. Sable refuses to be another Morcant martyr. To save Gravewater Academy, she’ll have to break every rule, steal a forbidden Blank Grimoire, and use every drop of high-heat Tidecraft running through her five-way Bond to lure the Murmur into a new cage of their own making.

If she fails, the Murmur will write its story in blood and ink across the entire campus. If she succeeds, she and her men might finally get what no Vessel has ever been allowed to keep at this school: a future, a home, and a love that belongs only to them.

BOUND IN INK AND BONE is a steamy, high-heat dark academia reverse harem (why choose) paranormal romance set at Gravewater Academy, featuring haunted libraries, living grimoires, a heroine who refuses to be sacrificed, and five possessive, morally grey love interests who would rather burn the Veil than give her up. Each book in the Gravewater Academy world follows a new couple or poly group and can be read as a standalone, though the series is richest read in order.

Perfect for readers who love:
📚 Dark academia romantasy with dangerous magic & cursed schools
👻 Haunted libraries, living books, ghosts and Necropolis adventures
🖋️ Steamy reverse harem / why choose academy romance with MFMMMM Bonds
🔥 High-heat, explicit open-door scenes, Veil Fever & sex-magic Tidecraft
🗝️ Morally grey, possessive heroes (professor, assassin, ghost lawmage & more)
💀 Soul-deep Bonds, death-defying bargains & “I’d die for you” turned “I’ll live with you”
💌 Found family, consent, no-cheating polyamory and a fiercely claimed HEA