Gothikana

A girl who's danced on the fringes of the world. A man shrouded in mystique. A fortress steeped in age-old enigmas. Sounds like the perfect storm for chaos. Corvina Clemm has borne the weight of the world's sideways glances all her life, but the tide of her fate seems to turn when an acceptance letter from the arcane University of Verenmore lands in her hands. Her mother's passing left her unmoored, and this peculiar university, housed in a castle wreathed in whispers and perched atop a foreboding peak, seems like destiny's call. Yet the castle's ancient stones harbor a legacy of deception and mortality. Vad Deverell, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside the castle's venerable walls, thrives in his solitude and surveillance. As a part-time academic guiding the next minds and full-time guardian of the castle's cryptic past, Vad knows the perils that lurk in shadowed corridors. His world of carefully curated distance is upended when Corvina arrives, a puzzle that threatens the order of his existence. Their gazes should have glanced off each other, their lives running parallel but never intersecting. Their existence is a concord that should never have been composed. But when a centennial chill of unresolved vanishings beckons, drawing them into its icy embrace, their paths are inexorably intertwined. Clues beckon Corvina, secrets she's intent on deciphering, while Vad finds himself unable to keep from tracking her every move. What unfolds is a narrative of the obscure, a dance with the morose, an embrace of the grotesque—and amidst the shadows, a love story blooms, as improbable and arresting as the mystery that draws them together.

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