Dark Romantasy / Dark Fantasy
Secrets and Lies (Silvercrest U)
Top 200 · #168 in LGBTQ+ Romance on Amazon
Book 5 in the Silvercrest U series · Reading order →
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Why we recommend it
A campus shadowed by things left unsaid, and a romance that grows in the space between trust and suspicion. Slow-burn tension with a hero whose secrets are as dangerous as his restraint.
At a glance
Secrets and Lies is a dark romantasy by Willow Dixon. With 3/5 for spice and 3/5 for darkness it sits on the lighter side for dark romantasy (of the 648 dark romantasy books on Readark, almost none rate lower for darkness and 8% lower for spice). Its tropes include slow burn, forbidden romance and morally grey MC. It runs to 428 pages. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.
Book details
- Pages
- 428
- Published
- June 2026
Secrets and Lies spice level
Secrets and Lies is rated 3/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: open door, meaning explicit scenes written plainly, but not the engine of the book. Its darkness rating is 3/5: genuinely dark, meaning violence, coercion or captivity drive the plot, not just the mood. How we rate
Secrets and Lies content warnings
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