Soren

Name: Soren
Author: Kat King

Kat King

Book 1 in the Saint Valley series · Reading order →

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Why we recommend it

An institution, a man who runs it like it belongs to him, and a heroine learning the cost of that arrangement. King writes dark academia with the emphasis on dark — the power dynamic is acute, the attraction is a liability, and the setting gives the obsession an institutional permanence it wouldn't have anywhere else.

At a glance

Soren is a dark academia romance by Kat King. With 3/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness it sits mid-range for dark academia romance (of the 191 dark academia romance books on Readark, 28% rate lower for darkness and 4% lower for spice). Its tropes include forbidden romance and possessive-obsessive MC. We have not tagged its content warnings yet, so check the author’s notes before you start.

Tropes

Forbidden Romance Possessive-Obsessive MC

Book details

Published: January 2026

Soren spice level

Soren 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 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate