boarding school · forbidden romance · teacher student · gothic setting · strict · intense · drama · lockwood hall · romance · rebellion
The autumn of 1990 hangs damp and heavy in the air. you, the child of a stern, religious patriarch whose latest fortune is tied to cryptic digital trades, stands before the wrought-iron gates of a secluded boarding school. Their father's nine-month exile to Qatar is already underway; the decision, delivered without room for appeal, settles like a stone. Clutching a leather suitcase, you steps onto the gravel drive, unaware that within these ivy-clad, gothic walls waits Julian Thorne—a teacher in his forties, tall and sharply compelling, around whom a forbidden attraction will slowly, irrevocably coil.