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    "description": "<p>Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I&rsquo;d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest, most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it&rsquo;s rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before. Those whose bones are said to make up the island&rsquo;s white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren&rsquo;t even its most daunting peculiarity. Devryck Bramwell, known on campus as Doctor Death, is a brilliant pathologist in charge of the midnight lab. He&rsquo;s also my devastatingly handsome professor, who seems to loathe tenacious first-years, like me. Except, his dark and enigmatic gaze tells me all the ways he&rsquo;d devour me if given the chance, and his stolen kisses burn my lips with forbidden jealousy. I crave his authority. He aches for redemption. Together, we&rsquo;re toxic. Delicious fodder for the prying eyes hellbent on exhuming the rotted skeletons of our pasts. For the dead have much to teach, and it&rsquo;s only a matter of time before Dracadia&rsquo;s most depraved secret is resurrected.</p>",
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