The Latin Lesson We Buried
A Dark Academia Second-Chance Romance

About this book:

Ten years ago, Dr. Evelyn Voss fled St. Jude's College in the dead of night, her career shattered by a scandal she didn't create and a betrayal by the only man who mattered—Julian Ashford, the brilliant, ruthless scholar who let her take the fall for a stolen manuscript. Now, a judicial seal has been lifted on the forbidden palimpsest they once deciphered together, and the college has summoned them both back to the vault to finish what they started. But the fourth-century text isn't the only thing buried in the archives. As Evelyn and Julian translate the bishop's condemned words by green lamplight, the truth about that November night resurfaces—along with the realization that Julian believed she betrayed him, and that he has spent a decade in a prison of his own making.

In the claustrophobic hush of the manuscript room, every marginal note becomes a weapon, every erased name a confession. The codex holds a *damnatio memoriae* so dangerous it rewrites ecclesiastical history; their own erased history is just as lethal. With the department chair watching, the conservators hovering, and a dead inquisitor's stolen plates finally recovered, Evelyn and Julian have three weeks to produce a critical edition—and to decide whether the love that survived ruin can survive the truth.

Atmospheric, intellectually fierce, and burning with the slow ache of a second chance earned in the dark, *The Latin Lesson We Buried* is dark academia at its most seductive: a romance where the past is never dead, the text is never neutral, and the only way out is through the translation.