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A Lesson in Thorns

A Spicy Enemies to Lovers Dark Academia Romance
By Sierra Simone
Series: Thornchapel
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From the author of the USA Today bestselling Priest and New Camelot series comes a high-heat, gothic, dark academia fairy tale full of lantern-lit rituals, foggy moors, and obsessions that last for a lifetime. Twelve years ago, she left Thornchapel – and the two boys she... Read More
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From the author of the USA Today bestselling Priest and New Camelot series comes a high-heat, gothic, dark academia fairy tale full of lantern-lit rituals, foggy moors, and obsessions that last for a lifetime.

Twelve years ago, she left Thornchapel – and the two boys she gave her heart to – behind.

Now, Proserpina Markham has returned, hopeful…and wary. Because it’s so very easy to be drawn back into the world of the seductive and elegant Auden Guest…and into the world of his worst enemy, St. Sebastian Martinez.

The beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian is as irresistible as he ever was, and Auden is just as handsome and arrogant, and the three of them can’t seem to unknot themselves from each other – or from the hasty promise they three made all those years ago.

As Thornchapel slowly tightens its coil of truths and lies around them, the reluctant threesome starts unravelling into filthy, holy pleasure and pain. Together, they’ve awakened a centuries-old fate that will either bloom like a rose…or destroy them all.

The insatiably sexy Thornchapel series begins with A Lesson in Thorns – a spicy dark academia romance full of enrapturing passion and enemies to lovers drama.

Tropes:
Enemies to Lovers
Dark Academia
Polyamory
Spicy Romance

The Thornchapel Series:
A Lesson in Thorns
Feast of Sparks (COMING APRIL 2025)
Harvest of Sighs (COMING MAY 2025)
Door of Bruises (COMING JUNE 2025)

Series: Thornchapel

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    From the author of the USA Today bestselling Priest and New Camelot series comes a high-heat, gothic, dark academia fairy tale full of lantern-lit rituals, foggy moors, and obsessions that last for a lifetime. Twelve years ago, she left Thornchapel – and the two boys she gave her heart to – behind. Now, Proserpina Markham has returned, hopeful…and wary. Because...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781464236488

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 March 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloom Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 258g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Sierra Simone is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling former library employee (who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk). Her notable works include Priest, American Queen, and Misadventures of a Curvy Girl, and her books have been featured in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, and Buzzfeed. Sierra lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.

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