Bully Me Once

A Dark Bully Romance

In the hallowed halls of Atheria, their rivalry was a weapon, their passion a war.

Evelyn Reed is a brilliant scholarship student fighting for her place at elite Atheria University. Damien Steele is the arrogant, dark-haired campus king who seems determined to make her life hell. His cruel taunts and intellectual sparring are designed to break her, but Evelyn pushes back with a resilience that infuriates and unexpectedly captivates him. As Evelyn’s groundbreaking research threatens a powerful and predatory professor, she finds herself in treacherous waters.
Damien, with his own complicated past and reasons to despise the same enemy, becomes an unlikely and dangerous ally. Their volatile animosity ignites an undeniable raw passion, forcing them to confront not only the corrupt forces around them but the unsettling desires that bind them. Can they survive the university's gilded cages and the inferno of their connection, or will they both be consumed?

This standalone book features academic rivals, enemies to lovers, bully romance, touch her and you die, dark academia, forbidden love, redemption arc, gilded cage, power imbalance, and forced alliance.