The Villain We Tempt

Releases July 28, 2026

My parents think I’m the perfect daughter.
To Knightsblood University, I’m the sweet little mafia princess.
But to a million strangers on BookTok, I’m the masked “Velvet Villainess”: the mysterious woman who convinces innocent readers that fictional psychopaths make perfectly reasonable boyfriend material.
If I’m being real, the strangers might know me best.
My double life is going great…until a masked stranger ripped straight from the pages of one of my own spicy books catches me filming.
The Ghost Prince is the internet’s favorite unhinged book boyfriend, cosplaying every morally gray, dangerously obsessive red flag I’ve ever swooned over behind a mask of his own.
And now he knows my dirtiest secret.
He says he won’t expose me. But instead, he decides to keep me.
I should be terrified.
Unfortunately, I’m into that.
There’s just one tiny complication.
Ghost isn’t just an anonymous masked fantasy.
He’s Lochlan Kildare. Campus royalty. Shameless flirt. My insufferably cocky and outrageously gorgeous teaching assistant.
The man I’d happily watch fall down a flight of stairs.
Which is a problem, because I might be falling for him.
Too bad I’m also falling for the masked stranger with his fingers around my neck.
I just don’t know they’re the same man.
Some villains hide behind masks.
Mine wears two.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑊𝑒 𝑇𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑁𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑊 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒.