Keep Her Name

She chose him on the first day of term. He refused to pick up the pen.Cass Ellery is twenty-one, brilliant, and impossible to ignore — a final-year student at a windswept Scottish university with a face that makes men forget their sentences and a hunger she has never been able to quiet. She doesn't do love. She doesn't do labels. And she has never, not once, let a man kiss her.Dr Anselm Vane doesn't do anything at all. The disinherited son of a shipping dynasty, he teaches Victorian novels in a cold room by the sea, keeps his office door open exactly the width of a hand, and has never given a student a second glance.Until her.What begins as a game of almosts — a whispered line, a stolen touch in the stacks, a dare across a seminar table — becomes the most dangerous thing either of them has ever wanted. Because Anselm notices everything. The French she speaks too perfectly. The way she knows a tailor by touch. The pills she won't explain.And Cass Ellery doesn't exist.Somewhere above a lake in Geneva, a powerful family is still looking for the daughter who walked out at four in the morning. And the one man who wanted her when he thought she had nothing is about to learn exactly who she is.A slow-burn, forbidden, deeply emotional dark academia romance with an age gap, a secret heiress, a morally grey heroine, and a hero who would rather lose everything than be one more man who tries to buy her.Intended for readers 18+. Contains explicit content and themes some readers may find difficult; please see the note at the front of the book.