romance duology - together for the first time in print and ebook!
Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound, then flip your book
over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound.
Bound
A reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an
arcane text-in more ways than one.
Veronica "Vero" Mercer grew up with grifters for parents, and she knows her way around
a con. When grad school bills pile up and her friends are in trouble, she turns her art
history skills into a forgery side hustle.
It''s supposed to be a short-term deal, but her work draws the attention of Dr. Viktor
Ashworth, a reserved, very British professor. Instead of turning her in, Ashworth kidnaps
her-politely-and makes an unusual offer: forge a mysterious ancient manuscript for him.
Soon Vero finds herself spending long nights with Viktor, bent over rare vellum samples
and obscure inks. But as the con grows riskier, Vero has to wonder: what does Viktor
really want, and why can''t she stay away?
Unbound
A five-thousand-year-old woman who has outlived empires. A doctor who has
spent his life fighting death. They fates collide in a blood game of vengeance.
Lilit of Nineveh has spent millennia in control. As a powerful revenant, she enforces one
rule above all: protect mortals. Disciplined and focused, she has never made the same
mistake twice, and she has learned that attachments can only lead to ruin.
Enter Roman Martin. An overworked and relentlessly kind ER physician, he is the one
mortal Lilit cannot quit. Any relationship between them is against everything Lilit has
fought for. Still, she keeps coming back to him.
Until someone starts hunting Lilit, and Roman is caught in the crossfire. When everything
comes crashing down, Lilit must choose between the world she has sworn to protect and
the man she was never meant to love.
Ali Hazelwood is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of multiple
romance novels, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in
which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she
lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience.
She recently became a professor, which absolutely terrifies her. When Ali is not at work,
she can be found running, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her three
feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband).



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