The Villain We Tempt

Jagger Cole

Book 2 of Dark Descendants

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At the elite, mafia-run Knightsblood University, Galina Nikitin secretly moonlights online as the masked 'Velvet Villainess,' a BookTok persona who swoons over fictional bad boys. When a masked stranger catches her filming and threatens to expose her secret, he instead decides to keep her close, not realizing she's about to discover he's actually her infuriatingly charming teaching assistant, Lochlan Kildare. As their online personas and real-world rivalry collide, Galina finds herself torn between the campus golden boy she can't stand and the obsessive masked man she can't resist, unaware they are one and the same. The story blends social-media intrigue, secret-society politics, and a slow unraveling of identity and desire.