The Latin We Buried
A Dark Academia Second-Chance Romance

About this book:

Ten years ago, Professor Arthur Sterling died at the bottom of a gorge, his unpublished translation of the *Sibylline Oracles* vanishing with him—and his six star pupils scattering to the winds. Now, a temporal escrow clause has summoned Helena Vance and Gabriel Thorne back to Saint Jude’s College, forcing them to share the office where their academic rivalry once burned brightest. They haven’t spoken since the night Sterling fell. They haven’t stopped thinking about each other since.

When a sealed envelope delivers Sterling’s missing notebook—naming them both *Reus*. Guilty.—Helena and Gabriel are thrust into a clandestine hunt through the college’s forbidden archives. A scorched signet ring, a palimpsest written in ash and blood, and coordinates pointing to the gorge where their mentor died suggest Sterling orchestrated his own endgame from beyond the grave. Someone in their old cohort is still playing his lethal game, and the only way to survive the final exam is to trust the one person who knows exactly how to destroy you.

In the gothic halls of Saint Jude’s, Latin isn't a dead language—it's the cipher for a decade of buried secrets, stolen manuscripts, and a love that curdled into hatred. *The Latin We Buried* is a dark academia thriller where the past refuses to stay translated, and the only way out is to read between the lines.