Beautiful and Unhinged: An MMX Dark College Romance of Power, Obsession, and the Thing Between Them

Vesper Vasquez-Reyes doesn't take research personally. It's just data — clean, attributed, timestamped. That's how they've survived everywhere worth surviving: by keeping the record and staying out of it.

Then the record becomes Caine Whitmore and Arlo Voss.

Ashmont University runs on old money and older grudges, and no two people at its center carry more weight than Caine and Arlo — two golden boys locked in four years of rivalry that's too load-bearing to examine too closely. When Vesper is assigned a longitudinal behavioral study with both men as subjects, proximity is the methodology. Professional distance is non-negotiable.

It lasts about forty minutes.

Caine moves like he's already decided every room will accommodate him — and then calls an IT director at 11 PM because a data submission deadline is at risk, and calls it efficiency. Arlo sits in the bleachers at 7 AM and doesn't write down the things that aren't his to record. Between the two of them, Vesper's carefully constructed wall starts doing what walls do when the foundation shifts: it holds for a while, and then it doesn't.

But what begins as three people in a research room with a protocol and a recorder turns into something far more dangerous than a methodology violation. Someone above the study — with connections that reach into the Whitmore family's foundation money — has been using Vesper's access to both men as a vehicle for a very different kind of investigation. And when the truth surfaces, all three of them are right by their own codes, operating from their own wounds, and about to find out whether what they've built can survive the fracture.

Beautiful and Unhinged is a dark college romance for readers who want the heat and the architecture — the obsessive pull between three people who all have very good reasons not to want each other, and no good way to stop. This is a gender-expansive MMX slow burn with sharp edges, multi-POV intimacy, and a romance that earns every inch of ground it takes.

Expect: institutional power, morally grey men who mean well and manage badly, a protagonist who keeps two kinds of notebooks for two kinds of truth, and a triad that forms because three specific people chose each other — not because it was convenient.

If you've been waiting for a dark campus romance that doesn't flinch from the complicated parts — the kind where the obsession is real, the stakes are personal, and the slow burn actually burns — Beautiful and Unhinged is the book you pick up and don't put down.

Grab your copy now and find out what happens when the only person who can see exactly who you are decides to stay.

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E-bog: 14. juni 2026