Nocticadia

About This Audiobook

Keri Lake’s *Nocticadia* isn’t just another campus gothic tale—it’s a fever dream of ambition, desire, and decay, wrapped in the velvet noose of academia. When our unnamed narrator flees their past to Dracadia University, they step into a world where knowledge is power, and power is best stolen in the dead of night. The university isn’t just a setting; it’s a character—a sprawling, gothic institution with secrets buried in its walls, its libraries, and the beds of its most dangerous students. Lake’s prose slithers between lush, decadent descriptions and razor-sharp tension, making every whispered conversation a potential trap and every touch a gamble. The romance here isn’t gentle; it’s a slow-burning addiction, where love and obsession are indistinguishable.

What sets *Nocticadia* apart is its refusal to play by the rules of either erotica or literary fiction. The erotic scenes aren’t gratuitous—they’re essential, dripping with the kind of psychological intensity that lingers far longer than the physical details. The narration, split between Aaron Shedlock and Stella Hunter, elevates the experience further. Shedlock’s voice drips with the narrator’s simmering rage and quiet despair, while Hunter’s performance crackles with mischief and danger, embodying the university’s hidden hierarchies. It’s a rare audiobook where the narrators don’t just tell the story—they haunt it.