A Taste of Torment (Shadow Hills Academy: Relentless)
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- Emotional Abuse / Gaslighting
Book 3 in the The Crimson Academy series · Reading order →
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A fiery dark academia fantasy where rebirth and rivalry burn just as hot as the romance. This third installment pairs sweeping magic with a combative, enemies-to-lovers pull set against a perilous academy backdrop. Expect simmering antagonism, gothic atmosphere, and stakes that keep climbing toward the flame. For readers who love phoenix-bright power, brooding adversaries, and a slow-burning attraction forged in fire. Intense, immersive, and steeped in academic menace.
Wrath of the Phoenix Born is book 3 in Adriana Steel’s The Crimson Academy series; to read in order, start with Shadows of the Marked. Spice 3/5, darkness 4/5 — mid-range for dark academia romance. Among 191 rated dark academia romance books, 28% are less dark and 4% less spicy. Tagged tropes include slow burn, enemies to lovers and forbidden romance. It is darker than Adriana Steel’s other books on Readark (average darkness 3.0/5). 1 content warning is listed below, hidden until you tap.
Wrath of the Phoenix Born 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
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