She doesn’t remember loving him.
He has never forgotten her.
🖤 HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO THESE LESSONS ARE MERCILESS! 🖤
Yelena and Professor Jasper Hawthorne’s story is officially out in the world.
I’ve been waiting to share this dark academia corner of the Veil of Shadows with you—the classrooms, the art, the ancient secrets, the forbidden attraction, the supernatural danger, and especially the history connecting two people who aren’t experiencing their love story from the same starting point.
Yelena thinks Professor Hawthorne is the mysterious man standing at the front of her art history classroom.
Hawthorne knows she is the woman he has loved before.
Protected before.
Lost before.
And somehow found again.
If you love:
🎨 Art history professor romance
🖤 Forbidden attraction
🌒 Dark academia
🔥 Obsessive devotion
🪽 Angels and supernatural secrets
🗝️ Ancient bloodlines
🖤 Protective hero energy
♾️ Reincarnated soulmates
🎨 And one unforgettable skin-painting scene…
These Lessons Are Merciless is officially available NOW.
Thank you for every preorder, every share, every comment, and every reader who has been waiting to step into Yelena and Hawthorne’s story.
I hope you fall hopelessly in love with them.

And remember:
Some love stories begin when two people meet.
Theirs begins when one of them finally comes back.
Happy release day, These Lessons Are Merciless. 🖤
