Nightshade

Instant USA TODAY Bestseller
Instant International Bestseller

A dark academia TikTok sensation packed with romantic suspense, murder, and addictive, enemies-to-lovers tension.

“Immensely fun and sexy—this book combines everything I love about dark academia and new adult! Autumn Woods wrote a winner!” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood

“I’ll love you with the same intensity that you hate me.”

At elite Sorrowsong University, hidden in the misty Scottish Highlands, Ophelia Winters is the ultimate outsider. Attending on a scholarship, she is there on a mission: investigate her parents’ suspicious deaths and destroy the powerful man she holds responsible. But everything changes when Ophelia meets Alex Corbeau-Green, billionaire heir, campus royalty, and son of her prime suspect. She’s convinced he’s a monster just like his father until a stalker emerges, and Alex becomes the only person she can trust in Sorrowsong’s secret-laden hallways.

As tension turns to yearning, Alex soon breaks down Ophelia’s walls, and her desire for revenge begins to unravel. Can she really bring herself to destroy everything he’s ever known?

With irresistible banter and a cliff-hanger ending that will leave you gasping, Nightshade is perfect for readers of Gothikana.

Print edition includes a special bonus chapter from Alex’s POV!

Tropes: Enemies to lovers / Dark Academia / Murder mystery / Creepy Scottish Castle / Romantic Suspense / Rugby Player x Swimmer / He falls first / Grumpy x Grumpy / Slow Burn / Hate to Love“Immensely fun and sexy—this book combines everything I love about dark academia and new adult! Autumn Woods wrote a winner!” —New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazel-wood

“Highly immersive and deliciously addictive. Autumn Woods is visceral with her storytelling. I loved it!” —Rebecca Johnpee, author of The Wicked

Read the Dark Academia romance sensation!
★★★★★ “I am genuinely mindblown at how phenomenal this is."
★★★★★ “6 stars. Im obsessed. Why is this the most perfect book ever??????????”
★★★★★ “wow wow wow. i was looking forward to this and it did not disappoint!!”
★★★★★ “Nightshade is not only one of my favourite books of the year but is now also one of my favourite books ever.”
★★★★★ “I will never recover. also a man like alex please.”
★★★★★ "The moment I picked up Nightshade, I was HOOKED. It completely took over my life, and I have zero regrets.”
★★★★★ "omg
I need book 2 like yesterday please & thank you
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★★★★★ “How can a book be so perfect? The tension, the slow burn, the characters, the setting everything was immaculate
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★★★★★ “I need a therapist because this book emotionally destroyed me……"
★★★★★ “I will be begging Zando and Autumn Woods for the next installment and be knocking on their doors.”Autumn Woods is an aerospace engineer by day, romance author by evening and weekend. She currently lives in the southwest of the UK with Mr. Woods and their dog.

She loves to write strong FMCs, and dark and twisty MMCs, wrapping them up in cottagecore and dark academia worlds.

When not writing or reading, she’s usually painting, baking, or spending time outdoors.