She spent seven years mourning him.

He spent seven years hating her.

Neither of them knows they're hunting the same secret.

They call it the Dean's List.

Not because of grades.

Because of sins.

At Brighton University, someone keeps a ledger of the powerful. Professors. Legacy families. Future politicians. Every affair, bribe, betrayal, and crime is carefully collected, waiting for the perfect moment to destroy the people responsible.

Delilah Quinn wants nothing to do with it. She changed her name, rebuilt her life, and has one year left before she can finally leave her past behind.

Then Jude Mercer walks back into her life.

The boy she loved.

The boy she buried.

The boy who knows exactly who she is.

Jude spent years paying for a crime he didn't commit, convinced Delilah betrayed him. Now he's back, determined to uncover the truth and make everyone responsible suffer. Especially her.

But revenge gets complicated when old feelings refuse to stay dead, and the deeper they dig into the Dean's List, the more they realize the ledger isn't exposing strangers. It's exposing their families.

Someone has been waiting for them to come home. Someone knows what really happened seven years ago. And if the Dean's List finally comes to light, it won't just ruin lives. It could end them.

And this time, losing each other might be the one thing Jude and Lilah can't survive.

A new adult dark academia romance with a scarred hero and a school full of secrets from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken.