Heretics (Bristolwood University)

Some sins can't be buried — no matter how far you run.

Scarlett Iscariot thought Bristolwood University was her second chance. A new city, a new name, a carefully rebuilt life as a graduate student in criminal psychology. She's spent years constructing walls between herself and the girl who destroyed a family. Then she walks into her criminal profiling class and finds Noah Payne sitting in the back row, watching her like she's already dead.

Her former foster brother hasn't forgotten what she did. When Scarlett exposed his father as a serial killer, Noah lost everything — and he's spent every moment since planning exactly how to make her pay for it. Their reunion isn't a coincidence. It's a reckoning.

But the real danger doesn't come from Noah. It comes from their professor, Julian Keats, a dangerously perceptive man who sees the raw wound between them and treats it like an experiment. Where another professor might intervene, Julian orchestrates. He pits them against each other in class, studies their reactions, and slowly dismantles every defense they've built — until the line between obsession and desire becomes impossible to see.

This dark new adult romance set inside the walls of Bristolwood's prestigious criminology program is a bruising, breathless story about two people with every reason to destroy each other — and one terrifying reason not to.

The only question is who breaks first.