Bound to the Drowned

A Dark Academia Reverse Harem Paranormal Ghost Romance

De: Lena Nightwood

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Rheia Corbin came to Gravewater Academy to study omens in a gothic magic tower—not to be claimed by the dead thing living under the lake.

On her first night, the Bottomless Lake calls her name.

Faces drift beneath the black water. A drowned prince with green eyes whispers mine inside her skull. When a scarred Veilrunner drags her back to the shore, Rheia’s skin lights up with sigils she never learned and a fever that feels like a curse.

The professors have an old word for it: Vessel. A girl whose body, Bonds, and pleasure can pull spirits through the Veil and bind them to her forever.

Now Gravewater’s ghosts—and worse—are waking for her.

Caelum, the mortal Veilrunner, keeps throwing himself between Rheia and the dark, and his hands are the only thing that make her Veil fever bearable. Lyris, the furious drowned prince in the lake, demands more than secondhand pleasure stolen through the looking glass. Solen, a war mage chained in the Necropolis, brands her with burning runes and refuses to be dismissed by any headmaster’s spell. Fenric, the horned trickster in the Drifting Woods, lures her into illusions and asks when she’ll choose her own wildness. And Cassian, the ward-bound librarian, promises he can turn her hunger into the spell that saves the school—or breaks it.

Every generation, Gravewater Academy handles its haunting the same way: march a Vessel down to the Drowned Steps, use her body and magic to seal the breach, and sacrifice one of her lovers as a permanent anchor. The headmaster, the dean, and the ancient grimoires all agree—if Rheia wants to live, she must pick which man dies.

Rheia refuses to play by their rules.

She won’t be their weapon, their martyr, or the girl who apologizes for wanting too much. If the abyss wants a meal, she’ll feed it a cursed relic, rewritten blood spells, and her own greedy fivefold Bond—and twist a centuries-old sealing ritual until the monster under the lake chokes on her.

BOUND TO THE DROWNED is Book One of the GRAVEWATER ACADEMY series, a standalone gothic dark academia reverse harem paranormal ghost romance featuring a Vessel heroine, five obsessive heroes, dangerous spellwork, explicit group scenes, no cheating, and a hard-won HFN/HEA for Rheia and her men.

Perfect for readers who love:
📚 Gothic dark academia and cursed magic academies
👻 Ghost princes, Necropolis tunnels, and haunted lakes
🔮 Spells, sigils, rituals, spirits, and magic-through-pleasure systems
🔥 High-heat reverse harem, why choose group scenes, and jealous, possessive heroes
💘 No choosing, no cheating, and a fiercely loyal heroine who claims all of her monsters