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The Exorcism of Faeries

J.L. Vampa

Morbid Realities #1

gothic romance(10k)

A botany student and her brooding anatomy professor must exorcise Dublin's fae — and resist each other.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

From the #1 bestselling author of Autumn of the Grimoire, J.L. Vampa, comes a brand new dark academia romance in the vein of Ninth House meets If We Were Villains and Nocticadia.She is the daughter of morticians, studying Botany at Trinity College, Dublin. He is her Morbid Anatomy professor. And the Fae are possessing the good people of Dublin. Only Atta and Professor Murdoch can exorcize the fae, but can they fight their forbidden feelings for one another in the process?It is said they are but lore.It is said they are but demons.It is said this is but a plague.Wayward spirits.Ghosts.Spectres.Ghouls.The truth beckonsTick flick tickThe clock keeps time with the candleUntil they all get sickWax slides down the gilded stickAnd the Fae invade with bramble---------------------------------Trinity College, Dublin5th November, 1993He always reads standing in front of the shelf, one hand shoved in his pocket until it’s time to flip the page. It’s the first thing I noticed about him, while I was supposed to be studying. Instead, I watched him move from shelf to shelf and book to book. I had no idea at the time that I would one day meet him and he would change everything.We would change everything.-Excerpt from the diary of Ariatne Morrow, found in the wreckage at Ground Zero

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