Aurora Reed
Welcome, darling reader, to the literary world of Aurora Reed, where the dark and the beautiful are merely two sides of the same coin. Allow your humble author to lure you into stories of desire and dread, power and ambition, the forbidden, the gothic, and the darkly academic.
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The Last Grand Archivist Book One:
The Deadliest Candidate
Ten formidable candidates. Two prestigious jobs. deadly library.
The Carthane Athenaeum selects only the best for the role of Grand Archivist. So when stalwart librarian Fern Sullivan is finally invited to compete for the role, she’s ready to sacrifice everything for it.
But as she contends with a host of extraordinary competitors, Fern quickly learns that she cannot trust anyone. Especially not elusive, enigmatic Léo Lautric—the scion of the corrupt arcane dynasty Fern has warred with for years.
When candidates begin to vanish, the candidacy shifts: scholarly competition transforms into a deadly game of power and ambition. As the lines between rivals, foes, and allies grow ever murkier, Fern finds herself forced to make impossible choices.
Failure is unthinkable, but to conquer the candidacy, Fern must first survive it.
Spearcrest Kings
Audentes Fortuna Iuvat
The Spearcrest Kings series unfolds in the hallowed corridors of Spearcrest Academy, an elite institution where the most gifted and wealthy students are shaped into future scholars and leaders. Yet beneath the prestige, glamour and discipline lies a world of dark desires and power struggles.
Each book in the Spearcrest Kings series is a stand-alone story following a different couple, and each book has its very own different character dynamics and atmosphere. From the angst of friends turned enemies to the yearning of academic rivals, the series has something to please every reader… and if it doesn’t, there’s nothing stopping you from sending your humble author a note… who knows, you might inspire a future book.
Five years ago, Evan Knight was my favourite person at Spearcrest Academy.
When every rich kid treated me like I was the dirt under their shoes, he was the only one who accepted me for who I was.
Until I found out his golden exterior is only there to hide a rotten heart.
Now, every encounter with him is a nightmare.
But in nightmares, you can kill your monsters.
Evan is a monster I can’t kill—no matter how much I want to. The kind of monster I’ll never be free from until I escape Spearcrest.
I just have to make it through our last year.
I’m rich enough to have anything or anyone I want.
Anything or anyone—except for the stuck-up prefect Sophie Sutton.
But I don’t want Sophie. I just want to break her. Because clashing with Sophie isn’t just for my amusement—it’s become an addiction.
She thinks she's gotten good at avoiding me, until Spearcrest sets her up to tutor me. I have a year to break her.
My dearest opponent, my hateful adversary.
Let the battle begin.
Spearcrest Knight is a new adult standalone enemies to lovers bully romance set in the hallowed halls of the prestigious Spearcrest Academy. It contains graphic sexual scenes which may not be suitable for all readers.
I’ve never met a woman impervious to my charm.
And they all accept my terms—an evening of fun, a night of pleasure, and then we’re done. They leave my bed satisfied, and I keep my heart intact.
Until Anaïs Nishinara comes crashing into my life. Our parents arrange our engagement, and they send Anaïs to my school so “we can get to know each other”.
Except she’s not interested in doing that. She’s a weird loner who prefers her sketchbook to the glamour of my old money lifestyle.
I don’t want Anaïs—I don’t even like her. So why can’t I seem to keep away from her?
Séverin Montcroix is a rude, spoilt, arrogant aristocrat.
And now I'm engaged with him and attending the prestigious Spearcrest Academy where he rules as one of the Young Kings. But I don't believe in kings—or princes, or fairy tales, or love.
I believe in myself, my art, and my plan to get out of this engagement.
Except that for someone who claims to hate being engaged to me, Séverin just refuses to leave me alone.
Is he playing games, or does he have a plan of his own?
And why is it getting harder to resist his attempts at seduction?
Spearcrest Prince is a new adult standalone arranged marriage romance set in the hallowed halls of the prestigious Spearcrest Academy. It contains graphic sexual scenes which may not be suitable for all readers.
My life is perfect from the outside.
But it's all a lie, a perfect illusion crafted to hide the sad truth: my life is a beautiful cage, and my father holds the key.
Especially when it comes to my heart. Dating is strictly forbidden, not that it would matter much to me.
If only it wasn't for Zachary Blackwood.
The heir to the centuries-old Blackwood fortune, my academic rival for the past six years... and the only person capable of seeing through the cracks in my facade.
Theodora Dorokhova is beautiful, intelligent, elusive—and the only student in Spearcrest I can't best.
No matter how long I try, no matter how hard I work. But this is our final year in Spearcrest, and we've both been selected for an academic excellence programme.
This time, there can only be one victor. And it's going to be me.
I won't let anything get in my way—not even my heart.
Because I love Theodora. I love her completely, overwhelmingly, desperately, even though we'll never be together.
Our love is written in the stars—Theodora is just afraid to look up.
Iakov Kavinski
It’s been years since I’ve seen my best friend’s little sister. Beautiful Zahara, hiding all her sadness behind her thorny exterior. I would have done anything to keep her safe, but she hated me anyway.
One night, everything changed and she told me she never wanted to see me again. I’m nothing if not obedient—her dog through and through. So I stayed away from her.
Then my best friend asks me for the one favour I can never deny him: protect his little sister—against her will if I have to.
Zahara Blackwood
In London's high society, I hide behind the glittering mask of a socialite, concealing all the broken pieces of me. I thought I could take charge of my destiny—until the stalker who’s been haunting me for years breaks into my home.
My brother's solution? Turn to the one man I swore to never see again. Tall, tattooed, messed-up Iakov Kavinski, my brother’s best friend and my infuriating protector.
Now, we're trapped together, teetering on the edge of attraction and resentment, a precarious balance of desire and denial.
And I refuse to be the first to fall.
Spearcrest Wolf is a new adult standalone brother's best friend romance. It contains dark themes and graphic sexual scenes which may not be suitable for all readers.
Luca Fletcher-Lowe - The Devil
My life unfolds behind the curtains of London's exclusive clubs, where I hold the city's elite in the palm of my hand. The only thing I value is power, and secrets are my currency.
And then I meet her. The mysterious girl with the poison eyes. She turns the tables on me and swipes the power right out of my hands. And then she runs, thinking she got away with it.
She thinks I won’t catch her—but she’s wrong. I’ll stop at nothing to find her and punish her for her hubris.
Willow Lynch - The Shadow
Revenge isn’t just my duty—it’s my passion. My goal is to settle the score against those who've wronged me; every rich, worthless man I crush in my path is just a bonus.
Then I meet Luca Fletcher-Lowe. Despite his reputation, Luca is no different to any other rich man: just another worm to crush under my boot.
Maybe adding insult to injury and leaving him bound and injured in a hotel room was a mistake. But devil or not, I’m not scared of Luca Fletcher-Lowe.
If he wants to hurt me, he’ll have to catch me first.
In the hallowed halls of Spearcrest Academy, where wealth and privilege reign supreme, a tempest brews between academically-gifted Sophie Sutton, an outsider in this elite world, and Evan Knight, the golden boy whose charm and beauty hides a capricious heart. Their final year in Spearcrest unfolds under a dark cloud of vengeance, resentment and desire—but every storm must break.
Séverin Montcroix has never encountered a woman who did not fall for his charms—until loner heiress Anaïs Nishinara arrives into his life, bringing with her an arranged engagement neither of them ever wanted. But what begins as an unwanted engagement quickly becomes a battle of wills, where words are weapons, desire is an inconvenience, and every kiss could be either a confession—or a curse.
Bound by ambition and pride, academic rivals Theodora Dorokhova and Zachary Blackwood find themselves ensnared in a delicate push and pull, where every victory is hard-worn and bittersweet, and every defeat is an exquisite torment. Their story for everyone who had to work themselves to the bone for their academic achievements, and for everyone who dreams of the kind of love only found in poetry.
Zahara Blackwood is a thorny rose guarding her heart. Iakov Kavinski is the lost wolf searching for a place to call home. When their paths collide once more, what else could be created by a storm of suppressed emotions and unresolved tensions? Their lives are fraught with danger, but nothing is more frightening than being forced to confront the forbidden love that binds them undeniably together.
Welcome to the hunt. Luca Fletcher-Lowe is the devil incarnate—ruthless, calculating, and willing to destroy anything that stands in his path. Willow Lynch, the enigmatic shadow with a vendetta of her own, becomes the one person who slips through his iron grip. Their hatred is as intoxicating as it is dangerous, pushing both to the edge of destruction.
About Aurora Reed
Aurora Reed loves writing books where the grandeur of academia meets the quagmire of human emotion. With a background steeped in literature and a lifelong fascination with all things gothic and romance, she’s fascinated by the interplay of power and vulnerability, love and obsession.
When she’s not immersed in her writing, Aurora enjoys devouring new books, indulging in the arcane lure of the esoteric, and, sometimes, leaving her own halls to wander the land in search of black coffee, animals to confer with or rare gems with which she might finally ward off her bad luck.
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