Wards of the Hollow Library

A Spicy Dark Academia Age Gap Romantasy

De: Lena Nightwood

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Laurel Voss is supposed to be a student, not the spine of a haunted university.

After surviving Ashbourne’s living foundations, Laurel knows the campus isn’t just cursed—it’s watching, remembering, and writing its own story through the runes carved into her bones.

Now the High Arcanum has arrived with gray coats, null-stone, and polite threats. To them, Laurel is a rare asset: the girl who hears the Hollow breathe, a problem they can relocate to a lab or seal under stone. To the Hollow, she’s something worse and better—its chosen anchor, the one person who can nudge the narrative without shattering the whole campus.

When Laurel experiments with her new power—fixing “small” mistakes on noticeboards and timetables—reality obliges. Exams move. Wards flex. Forgotten names reappear. Every correction lands with a rush that feels disturbingly like pleasure…and a cost someone else pays in lost chances, changed memories, or erased histories. The more she edits, the more the Hollow tempts her to go bigger.

All of it unfolds under the scrutiny of Graham Ellis, the disgraced professor who once wired Laurel into the ruin and the only person who truly understands what she is now. With auditors watching and null-stone piling up in the vaults, their forbidden, age-gap entanglement turns sharp and tender at once—two obsessives in love, trying to draw a line between intimacy and exploitation while the foundations strain under their feet.

When the Arcanum moves to “stabilize” Ashbourne for good, Laurel faces an impossible choice: let them brick her and the Hollow into silence, or step into the heart of the story itself and rewrite the university’s fate—knowing that every line she changes will take something from her in return.

The Ashbourne Runes – Book Two is a spicy dark academia age-gap romantasy with a haunted university, sentient ruins, reality-bending magic, a morally gray book-nerd heroine, her obsessive professor lover, institutional conspiracies, fiercely loyal friends, and explicit on-page steam in a continuing new adult college series that should be read in order.