Ghoulgasms #7: the Sapphic Library

Her thesis is dying, but the library is hungry.Mara Chen is a grad student on the verge of academic ruin. Desperate to save her thesis, she breaks into the university’s forbidden archives after midnight. But the secrets she finds aren’t written on paper—they’re alive. And they’re voracious.Deep beneath the hallowed halls lies a living library, a cathedral of impossible books that breathe, bleed ink, and feed on the minds of those who read them. Its guardian is Evelyn Crowthorne, the beautiful and unnerving Librarian with silver hair and secrets imprinted on her very skin. She warns Mara to flee, but it’s already too late.The archive has chosen Mara, marking her with crawling ink stains and haunting her with whispers of ancient knowledge. The hunger to know more is an addiction, a craving that rivals her burning attraction to the one woman who understands the library’s unholy power.But in this place, knowledge isn’t just learned; it’s consumed. The books themselves have an appetite, offering an ecstasy so profound it borders on annihilation. To be with Evelyn is to surrender to the same darkness that binds her. To survive, Mara must make a new bargain with the archive—one that will either make her its master or permanently bind her to its collection.Ghoulgasms #7: The Sapphic Library is a standalone dark academia paranormal romance dripping with high heat and gothic horror. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth, A Dowry of Blood, and stories where the books bite back.