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The Ritual: A Dark College Romance

Amazon Bestseller · #3 in Organized Crime Thrillers
Shantel Tessier

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Why we recommend it

Secret societies and sinister rites set the stage for this dark college romance steeped in ritual and dread. Expect forbidden ceremonies, dangerous men, and a heroine drawn into a world where devotion borders on the macabre. The atmosphere is gothic, charged, and unsettling. For readers who love their romance shadowed by menace and mystery, this delivers an immersive descent into obsession, secrecy, and the seductive pull of the forbidden.

At a glance

The Ritual is a bully romance by Shantel Tessier. It rates 4/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for bully romance: of the 419 bully romance books we rate, 9% score lower for darkness and 6% lower for spice. Tropes: antihero / villain MC, bully and forced proximity. It is about as dark as Shantel Tessier’s other books on Readark (average darkness 4.0/5). It runs to 626 pages. 3 content warnings are listed below, hidden until you tap.

Book details

Pages
626
Published
November 2021

The Ritual spice level

The Ritual is rated 4/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: explicit and frequent, meaning multiple detailed scenes, with heat central to the story. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate

The Ritual content warnings

We list 3 content warnings for this book. They stay hidden until you tap, so you can check without spoilers.

Content warnings (tap to reveal)
  • Blood / Knife Play
  • Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting
  • Graphic Violence

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