Lena Nightwood
Dark academia, romantasy, and paranormal tales of runes, libraries, and dangerously charming magic.
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Series & Collections
The Ashbourne Runes
A dark academia series with ancient texts, runes, an age gap professor, and spice.
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is a steamy dark academia reverse harem (why choose) series of standalone romances, featuring ghosts, dangerous bonds with the undead, monsters, and forbidden magic
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Runes of the Hollow Library
A scholarship to a gothic university. A job in its archives. A chance to spend my days with ancient texts. That was the plan. Then the runes began answering me. Books vanished. A classmate disappeared as if she'd never existed. And the professor I should never want took far too much interest in the words only I could see. He's brilliant, dangerous, and already scarred by whatever waits beneath the library. I need his help. He needs my gift. The closer I get to him, the harder it becomes to tell which of us is in more danger. Spicy dark academia age gap romantasy with a forbidden professor–student romance, a cursed library, and living runes. Book 1 of The Ashbourne Runes trilogy.
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Wards of the Hollow Library
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Reckoning of the Hollow Library
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Lena runs on strong coffee and late nights. She enjoys creating characters who are a little unhinged—especially the ones with sharp edges.
She writes dark academia, fantasy, romantasy, and paranormal romance with magic, monsters, and heat—where the kisses burn and the stakes actually matter.