The Latin Library at Midnight
A Dark Academia Novel

About this book:

When a historic blizzard traps rival classicists Dr. Eleanor Vance and Dr. Julian Ashford inside the gothic heart of St. Jude's College, the only heat comes from a dying generator—and the decades-old mystery they've just stumbled upon. Snowbound in the Latin Reading Room, with the power failing and the medieval iron vault beckoning from the shadows, they uncover a mislabeled codex linked to the vanished Victorian scholar Alistair Finch: a man who took a priceless manuscript and the college's darkest secrets to his grave.

Forced into an uneasy alliance by the storm and the singular tenure track they both desperately need, Eleanor's relentless archival rigor clashes with Julian's aristocratic charm as they race to decipher the palimpsest before the blizzard breaks. But the deeper they delve into the forbidden shelves, the clearer it becomes that someone at St. Jude's has killed to keep Finch's discovery buried—and the next name in the margin might be their own.

Atmospheric, intellectually sharp, and dripping with gothic suspense, *The Latin Library at Midnight* is a love letter to dark academia: candlelit corridors, bitter rivalries, dead languages, and the terrible price of knowing too much. Perfect for readers of *The Secret History*, *Ninth House*, and *If We Were Villains*.