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Daybreak

by Autumn Woods

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·Sorrowsong University #2

Why Read This?

You'll experience a deeply emotional, angsty romance that delivers satisfying pain and leaves you obsessed with the characters' dark love story.

Synopsis

Alex’s Corbeau-Green’s world is burning down around him, and Ophelia Winters is desperate to prove she didn’t light the fire. When Ophelia first accepted a scholarship from Sorrowsong, an elite university in the Scottish Highlands, she wanted nothing more than to destroy Alex and his family at any cost. But that was before she knew him, before they became each other’s everything. Now, after an unthinkable betrayal and the disappearance of his father, Alex is forced to return to New York, desperate to forget what they had, and salvage the damage done to his family. In Scotland, Ophelia is left reeling, alone . . . and watched. With a new anonymous tormentor threatening to release evidence that Ophelia and Alex committed a murder on campus, it’s clear that they’re going to need each other once again. But can they find a way to trust each other, and repair the love that they had? And even if they can—will it be enough this time to keep them alive?

At a Glance

4.45 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

dark romanceblood feud romancecursed love interest

Mood

darkintenseromanticangstybrooding

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.45 ★

Page Count

416 pages

Published

2026

Primary Genre

Dark Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

GraphicAudio

Narrator

GraphicAudio Full Cast

Narrator Count

Full Cast

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

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Spice Details 🌶️

intense / passionate sign in to unlock

emotional abusetraumaviolenceanxietycaptivitydark romancedepressiondubious consentgriefstalking

World & Setting

dark academia sign in to unlock

Reading Context

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