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.

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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