The Beast of Bellmont Academy

She is a brilliant, lonely prodigy in a world of privilege and secrets, driven by a haunting past to achieve the impossible: to conquer death itself. Aveline Laurent's obsession has led her to create Thalion, a being of steel and shadow, a masterpiece of biomechanics and her lab's silent guardian. He is the key to her forbidden research, but he is a secret she can't control. In the gothic halls of Bellmont Academy, their shared sanctuary becomes a hothouse of forbidden desire.
Every stolen touch is a shocking discovery, every whispered word a provocative challenge. Aveline needs his mechanical heart for her work, but Thalion awakens a primal, sensual hunger in her flesh, demanding a price she never imagined. He is a masterpiece of creation, and he is a monster. He is her protector, and he is the most beautiful danger she has ever known. But Thalion's purpose is evolving.
He was made to guard her, but now he wants to possess her, to teach her a new kind of doctrine written in pleasure and pain. To claim her surrender is his new, singular obsession. As the forces of the academy close in, threatening to expose her scandalous work, Aveline must decide what she is willing to sacrifice. To complete her life's ambition, she may have to give up the only being who has ever truly seen her.
or surrender herself completely to a love that feels as savage as it does sacred.