The Vicious Method: a Dark Academia Psychological Romance

“A masterclass in psychological warfare. I couldn’t put it down.” — Dark Romance Reads

He doesn’t want my body. He wants to own my mind.

I spent eighteen years surviving a fanatic cult by burying my intelligence. Now, as a doctoral candidate at Saint Jude’s College, logic is my only armor. I thought I was finally safe. I thought I was the one observing the monsters.

I was wrong.

Alistair Covington is the Dean of Behavioral Sciences. He is brilliant, lethal, and completely devoid of human empathy. He is also the man who just systematically destroyed my entire life with a stroke of his pen. My grant. My apartment. My future. He erased it all, leaving me with only one door open: the one leading directly into his isolated, heavily fortified estate in the Scottish highlands.

He offered me a job in his private archives. It was a lie.
I am not his assistant. I am his experiment.

Alistair doesn’t use his fists to break a woman. He uses sensory deprivation. He uses psychological manipulation. He uses the dark. He is tearing down my walls piece by piece, forcing my body to crave the very hands that lock the cage.

I should run. I should hate him.
But the terrifying truth is… I’m starting to like the dark. And I think I’m falling in love with the monster who built it.

THE VICIOUS METHOD is a standalone, full-length Dark Academia Psychological Romance. It features extreme coercive control, forced proximity, praise kink, and a morally bankrupt villain who will burn the world to the ground to protect what is his. Reader discretion is strongly advised.